Chicago pretty much dictates politics for the rest of the state. That means Illinois’s anti-gun bent isn’t because of most of the rest of the state, but because people in the Windy City want gun restrictions.
And, of course, they don’t work.
But as you already know from the headline, this is a bit of a weird story. It’s not a shocking one, though, because nothing about this is truly surprising, overall. That’s probably the only surprising thing about it.
The father of a rapper whose album release party was the setting of a River North mass shooting last week is facing federal gun charges, court records show.
Melvin Doyle, 59, is the father of rapper Mello Buckzz, whose birth name is Melanie Doyle. She hosted a party on July 2 where a shooting broke out, leaving four people dead and 14 more wounded.
Doyle, who was convicted in 1998 of attempted murder and in 2003 and 2006 for drug charges, is unauthorized to possess firearms under Illinois law.
Between May and July of this year, Doyle sold 13 firearms to confidential informants with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to an affidavit signed by ATF agent Iskar Smith and filed in U.S. District Court Tuesday.
ATF agents allegedly bought a Glock from Doyle at his home, which was turned over to authorities, and one reportedly purchased a firearm from him in 2022.
Now, let’s take a step back for a moment and understand that I don’t follow rappers in pretty much any way. I have no clue who any of these people are, so I have to use Google and judge from there if they have any real presence. However, the fact that this rapper’s release party came complete with a mass shooting kind of makes most of that irrelevant.
However, Mello Buckzz doesn’t seem to be a huge name in the industry. That’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with up-and-coming artists. They all have to start somewhere.
I can’t help but wonder if the shooting at her release party had more to do with her father than anything else.
Hip-hop culture has long had a connection with gang culture. They don’t overlap perfectly, but the Venn diagram looks like a bigger circle that’s pregnant. The presence of criminality in and among rappers isn’t anything new.
While I don’t know if Buckzz’s lyrics glorify that sort of thing, many do, so it’s not a real stretch to find a connection.
For her father, though, to be arrested on gun charges just a week after a mass shooting at her record release party, though, has to be the most Chicago story of the century. I mean, seriously.
And yeah, the gun control laws clearly didn’t work, and Doyle is allegedly part of why they not just didn’t work but would never work. The man is a three-time felon, for crying out loud, and somehow got guns that he turned around and sold to ATF agents.
Absolutely brilliant.
What’s really sad is that someone is going to use these incidents to claim what we really need are tougher gun control laws, because the three-time loser who sold guns to undercover ATF agents and also saw a mass shooting at his daughter’s record release party couldn’t have broken new laws, just old ones.
It’s absolutely ridiculous the way some people “think” in this world.
Editor’s Note: Anti-gunners are doing everything they can to blame the actions of violent criminals on our Second Amendment rights and lawful gun owners.
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