Americans know that the only thing that stops bad people with evil in their hearts is a good guy or gal with a gun. And when you take good people with guns out of the equation, criminals rule the streets.
Take, for instance, J’Ouvert and the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. It’s marketed as a family picnic with better music: grandparents in lawn chairs, kids in feathers, jerk smoke in the air, a million people turning Eastern Parkway into Carnival for a day.
But that’s not all it is. Persistent violence has plagued this event. Why? Local political leaders prefer gun control for the little people over empowerment. They also refuse to call out street gangs and their violence.
Because in big cities, gangs are often political contributors and campaign workers. As a result, gun control laws have disarmed those not inclined to cause problems and commit crime. That leaves the thugs and other ne’er-do-wells armed to the teeth to declare open season on anyone they want.
WATCH: Crowds fill Brooklyn streets overnight and early Monday morning, as unofficial celebration of Jouvert ahead of the West Indian Day parade begins.
Official parade starts at 6am with heavy police around the area.
Video by Diego Luzuriaga | Licensing @FreedomNTV… pic.twitter.com/kHF0mpD2vn
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) September 7, 2026
And it happened yet again this year. Before J’Ouvert officially started, a really late night/early morning street brawl produced neck wounds, a face puncture, and a chin slash. A 32-year-old and a 23-year-old took knives to the neck. A 36-year-old got it in the face. A 20-year-old took it on the chin. Minutes later a 25-year-old was slashed across the face a mile away.
One victim was initially critical. The attackers ran. As for arrests? They always get their man on NYPD TV dramas. In real life? Not so often.
NYC just added extra cops and cut the West Indian parade short because the last few years kept ending in blood.
Today it happened again: stabbings before the floats rolled, more gunfire before they shut it down.
Yet we’re being told on a daily basis by the media and Democrats… pic.twitter.com/Yy6tZiTovX
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 7, 2026
The afternoon — the actual parade — was the sequel. A 24-year-old caught a bullet in the buttocks after a fight—“pop, pop,” a witness said. Five minutes later a 37-year-old woman was shot in the leg and a 19-year-old man was grazed in both legs at Eastern Parkway and Kingston.
One gun was recovered. One person of interest. Not a suspect, just a “person of interest.” Everyone else vanished into the crowd. Eight or nine people stabbed, slashed, or shot. Nobody wound up dead this year, thankfully. Last year: six shot. In 2024: one man killed on the route.
2 women shot in separate incidents near NYC’s West Indian Day Parade route, adding to day’s violence https://t.co/uO4YNui45l pic.twitter.com/aAtTYdcrfw
— New York Post (@nypost) September 7, 2026
Is shooting and stabbing people part of the Caribbean culture? It’s supposed to be Carnival costumes, pans, food, and showing off. Monday’s body count wasn’t heritage. It was bad guys who feel emboldened because they know innocent people can’t fight back.
This also isn’t America. You don’t get parade slashings, pre-dawn neck wounds, carjackings, flash-mob smash-and-grabs, riot tourism, and murder sprees that treat sidewalks like a video game in rural America. Gangs and public officials who are terrified of naming the offenders produce a product you can see every year in Brooklyn, one you won’t find at a 4-H show.
New York still sells itself as a gun-control utopia. The laws disarmed the people who obeyed the law, but they didn’t magically hoover up every illegal gun in Crown Heights.
Bad people with evil in their hearts aren’t impressed by ordinances or statutes. They’re impressed by immediate, lethal resistance. Families came for a parade. The thugs came for cover. The good guys were told to leave the means of self-defense at home. Until that changes, next September will be the same movie with a new date.
If certain groups of people really wanted to not be judged for their behaviors they wouldn’t behave the way in which they are judged especially while in groups.
What they really want is no consequences for their behaviors.