According to Fox News, personal communications of St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones (D) have been made available to the public as a result of a successful open records request. Among the hundreds of texts the mayor exchanged, a few have sparked questions about her stated beliefs. Although Mayor Jones openly backed gun control measures, she said in private that “Chicago, despite its strict gun laws, does not effectively reduce gun violence.” She has essentially admitted that ineffective gun control policies exist.
A better alternative approach, she said in her private communication, is “investing in the people.” These private texts go against what the mayor said following a shooting spree a month prior. Jones stated in June that “[o]ur state’s lax gun laws make our challenge even more difficult” to rein in and stop these tragedies.
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She blamed “[t]he legislature’s lack of action on gun safety laws [that] encourages the proliferation of guns on our streets and puts our responding officers directly in harm’s way.” Moreover, she designated June 3rd as “Gun Violence Awareness Day” and suggested to the Senate that “must protect our families” through “expanding background checks to all gun sales, regulating assault weapons, and passing a federal red flag law.”
However, this seemed to go against the mayor’s previous private letters. “Newark, NJ has the same size population, same size police force, and similar racial demographics [as St. Louis], yet had 50 murders in 2022…I visited these [violence prevention] programs first hand and I know that they work. We just need the will.”
Her office has been in damage-control mode ever since the mayor’s private communication was made public. The mayor’s spokesperson, Nick Desideri, asserted that there was no conflict between the mayor’s positions in private and public. He stated: “Gun laws are just one part of the solution…There’s a difference between deterring behavior and making it harder to get firearms and weaponry; for example, there’s no doubt that gun laws in the blue region around Newark help reduce violence as opposed to here.”
The spokesperson’s explanation does not address the mayor’s acknowledgment in private that Chicago’s gun regulations are ineffective. Even Nevertheless, the mayor grumbled in the private correspondence that “[w]e have way too many guns on our streets” but noted that “no way to take them away.”
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Desideri also distributed a letter from the mayor that read: “I’ve never been one to hide my feelings…Through an honest mistake, text messages between my family and close friends were released to the public. Sometimes my words can be terse, and my text messages speak for themselves. I understand the impact of some of my comments, and will contact the relevant parties to ensure productive dialogue moving forward.” In essence, Desideri repeated the mayor’s assertion that these writings were never intended to be published and that their appearance was the result of “an honest mistake.”
