Last week, a shooting in downtown Montgomery left two dead and 14 injured. The city was sponsoring an HBCU football celebration with crowds of people packed into the area. Then someone decided it would be a good idea to fire randomly into the crowd. How sick is that?

These people were just enjoying their night. Instead of a fun evening of revelry and hanging out with friends, two people are dead and others are fighting for their lives. This shouldn’t happen in the capital of any state, let alone Alabama, which prizes itself on maintaining law and order.

Attorney General Steve Marshall certainly has this viewpoint, weighing in with a statement after the shooting. As 1819 News reported :

‘These events underscore, once again, that our capital city is in crisis. Though the blame lies with

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