Urban Diogenes says on Right Wisconsin about the shooting of 10-year-old Sierra Guyton in apparent crossfire between someone reportedly arrested 15 times before he turned 18, and someone recently released from prison after a term (of obviously inadequate length) for reckless homicide:

A lot of news reports have classified the bullet that slammed into the head of 10-year-old Sierra Guyton as a “random act of violence.”  Nothing could be further from the truth.

The “gun” that fired that shot was carefully and elaborately constructed by a community in denial and by community leadership more concerned with personal agendas and political correctness than with confronting real problems and getting actual results. …

Mary Burke.  You exploited the shooting on an innocent child in Milwaukee as a way to attack Wisconsin’s Photo ID Law. You showed that you believe that your political future is more important than the life of an African-American child or than confronting the problems that put her life in jeopardy. Mary Burke: you are the gun.

Mayor Tom Barrett.  Your version of “leadership” in the wake of yet another Milwaukee shooting season is a furrowed brow, anti-violence platitudes, and an ironically violent community Ceasefire Week. Mayor Barrett: you are the gun.

Milwaukee “Community Leaders.” You are always there to march and second guess a cop who shot a criminal or to pressure the judicial system about the “injustice” of keeping so many young black men behind bars. Well, congratulations. You got what you asked for. Sylvester Lewis was one less young black man behind bars. He used his freedom to shoot a 10-year old girl in the head. Community Leaders: you are the gun.

Chief Ed Flynn.  In spite of your shiny uniform and tough talk we have seen again that your police do not prevent crime in this city, they are merely the badge-wearing street sweepers cleaning up the mess after the violence parade has passed by. Your tough talk about your officers catching the bad guys belies your actual impotence in keeping them caught and your timidity to speak out forcefully against the against judicial system that lets them go. Instead, you revert to time-worn clichés about the need to make firearms that are already illegal for a felon to possess even more illegal. Chief Flynn: you are the gun.

Milwaukee Public Schools.  Your district motto should be “Excuse Making Starts Here.” You do a scandalously poor job educating young African-American children, and yet you doggedly resist anyone trying to do it differently or better. You blame your failures on everyone else – Scott Walker, state funding, School Choice, Charters, poverty – and thereby create a culture of low expectations where African American children don’t learn reading or math, but they get a lifetime lesson in unaccountability and how to blame someone else rather than work to improve themselves. MPS: you are the gun.

District Attorney John Chisholm.  Your office spares no expense running politically-motivated witch hunts so the world can be kept safe from political e-mails, and yet you agree to plea deals that put people like Sylvester Lewis back on the street despite a record of 15 arrests before the age of 18.   The state has given you tough laws and stiff sentences for violent criminals, but you have chosen not to use them to their full force or impact. Instead you hold feel-good workshops on how to “divert” criminals from prison time. John Chisholm: you are the gun.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.   You consistently play the role of the speak-no-evil monkey in the face the city’s booming drug trade, its valueless violence culture, its revolving door judicial system, and its army of crooked social service enablers. You pat yourself on the back for running the names and phone numbers of elected officials hesitant to pass a new insurance mandate, but you are too spineless to call out prosecutors and judges by name – much less print their contact information – when they let violent criminals back on the streets. You relegate shootings to the news in brief section and literally whitewash the demographics and the nature of the violence in our city. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: you are the gun.

Urban males.  You think being a man is measured in the sagginess of your pants, the rigidity of your hat brim, your willingness to deal and do drugs, and your ability to treat women as disposable objects for your own pleasure and power. You revel in a culture of immorality, unaccountability, and incivility. “Your god is your appetite, your glory is your shame, and your end is destruction.” Urban males: you are the gun. …

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Jean DiMotto.  The blood of Sierra Guyton is on your hands for putting Sylvester Lewis back on the streets. If the community was actually outraged about this shooting they would run you out of office on a rail, and set an example for all judges in the Milwaukee Circuit that we will not tolerate letting dangerous criminals walk the streets again – when in doubt, don’t let ’em out! Of course, you and I both know nothing like that will happen. You will be reelected with 70% of the vote even as the sheep in the central city hold candlelight vigils and community meetings trying to figure out how “senseless tragedies” like this one happen. Judge DiMotto: You are the gun.

Burke’s response, by the way, was to say that families need to be engaged by politicians, which is the most inadequate response imaginable.