The reality about violent crime isn’t that it’s super common, but that it’s relatively isolated. The perpetrators of most of these crimes are well-known to police already, and they tend to keep their violence within their own small communities within the larger community of their cities. Even in the most crime-ridden American city, you can walk unmolested through most of it.
There are just a handful of places where you don’t dare to go.
And the violence is often sparked not by criminal rivals vying for territory or market share. It’s piddly little nonsense that shouldn’t erupt in violence, but does.
I’m talking about stuff like this.
A 15-year-old in Florida is accused of killing a classmate after bumping into each other in a school hallway.
The 16-year-old victim allegedly bumped into the suspect and didn’t apologize, which officials say led to his killing.
The 15-year-old suspect, identified as Jacori Redding, is being held in juvenile detention. He’s charged with killing his classmate at Oak Ridge High School.
Redding appeared nonchalant during a court hearing Friday, but he turned and smiled as his family called out to him.
Orange County Sheriff John Mina said the bump in the hallway, followed by a lack of apology, turned into a plan to fight at a nearby basketball court after school let out.
That’s when authorities say that Redding shot the 16-year-old Pinien Dalmacy.
Now, bumping into someone and not apologizing is definitely rude, but rudeness isn’t grounds to murder someone. It’s not a reason to shoot a person.
Unless, of course, you live in an inner-city, gansta rap-inspired honor culture like we find in many rougher neighborhoods in this country. Then, any slight is seen not as rudeness, but as a blatant act of disrespect that must be answered for.
This seems like an extreme example, but it’s not, actually. I’ve seen a lot of cases that turned out to be something similar. Often, the catalyst might be something more significant, like the victim had previously shot the perpetrator or one of his friends, but often it’s just some kind of little slight that couldn’t be let go.
And look, I grew up in an honor culture, too. A lot of us did, really.
But then, we settled our piddly issues with our fists. You’d either kick the other guy’s butt or get yours kicked, then move on with your life. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world to lose a fight, necessarily, but it also was a lesson and a risk most didn’t want to take if they could avoid it, so we maintained a certain degree of equilibrium. It was those who wouldn’t fight who would find themselves repeatedly and severely disrespected.
It wasn’t great, and I’m not saying that should be acceptable, but it’s a whole lot better than shooting and killing a kid over a bump in the hallway.
If we really want to tamp down on the homicide rate in this country, this is what needs to be addressed. There’s no way around it.
Unfortunately, too many people want to blame the guns, even though there’s no universe where a 15-year-old is legally obtaining a firearm in this day and age.
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