Kansas City Council Lady Blames LACK OF CASH For Latest 18th & Vine Mass Shooting

For weekend readers we offer this quote that is often repeated but NEVER contested . .  . 

To start . . .  

Just for the record, the amount KCMO has spent on 18th & Vine now approaches a QUARTER BILLION DOLLARS since the 90s and has ACTUALLY lasted longer than the jazz age. 

Nevertheless . . . We consider this comment . . .  

Kansas City Council member Melissa Patterson Hazley spent most of her day in the district attending openings for new businesses, visiting shows and eating at restaurants. She left when it started to rain around 7 p.m., but said she noticed a change in the crowd as she was leaving. She said the city has neglected the area for decades, and that poverty, mixed with easy access to firearms and families not intervening when a family member has a firearm, can all lead to situations like the one that occurred on Friday. 

“Kansas City is investing billions of dollars in the other parts of the city, and the area we have neglected is getting more and more violent,” Patterson Hazley, who represents the city’s 3rd District, said. “We have created an environment in which people are stressed out, and they have access to firearms in a stressful environment.”

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