Hey, someone is taking that out-with-a-bang thing too seriously. Murders aplenty across the Charlotte area, nine in seven days.

More broadly, why is this news? It is perfectly normal for career criminals who have escaped punishment from a broken criminal justice system to wind up killing someone. We don’t prosecute anyone in Mecklenburg County — unless the feds stumble on a hooker op with some big pocket customers — then we got resources out the ying-yang.

Happy New Year. I am done playing nice.