We’ll I guess the drive-by shooters are now walk-by shooters, gunning their foes down in and outside clubs and fleeing on foot. These gun-fighting dancers don’t even care if the police station is a block away and police officers are a couple feet away.
No wonder the city put a lock on hanging in the Fairgrounds and O’Fallon parks on Sunday afternoons. The city has Plush and Spruill’s liquor licenses in limbo after the recent shootings. I got word that Plush has actually thrown in its bloody white towel and call it quits. I must say you can’t blame the club owners who try to give people a place to kick it. Are we going to have to start hanging out at white clubs? Maybe not. Lords knows they usually bounce after we start rolling through. But they know most of us can’t take that irritating techno music. It’s like a black dancer’s cryptonite. Now, mind you, this is the young thugs I’m talking about – not us classy, professional black folks who are just as scared of these villains as anyone. Most of them don’t take their guns inside the club, like dude at the Royal Palace, which leads me to think people’s cars are going to have to be searched before they can enter. I’m willing to bet that more than three-quarters of the folks with cars parked outside Spruill’s for $2 Dollar Tuesdays had a gun inside. What can you do? I guess the city is already doing it.