You think checking for illegal guns when entering the metro is “profiling?” Why, pray tell? |
People who say they want gun control don’t really want gun control. |
| Metro could add gun scanners to their new anti-fare jumping turnstiles https://queenseagle.com/all/2024/3/29/city-to-put-gun-scanners-in-front-of-subway-turnstiles then DC can become even more like NYC. |
DC has a lot of residents who want to virtue signal AND have the very highest "quality of life". This past year has been challenging for them . |
Yeah, the mothers have them on purpose. Everyone loves babies and motherhood is a special and (often) respected role. Would you rather be a young mother with an important role and a baby who loves you, or a random single with no prospects except a series of dead end jobs? A lot choose mother thinking it will work out. Of course, it doesn’t. |
I don’t get why people on this board are always hinting at the tension between liberty/fairness and authoritarianism/public safety like it’s a secret that they’re pointing out. Or the idea that cultural homogeneity is a factor. It’s basically the central tension and challenge of government. It’s the basis of a huge chunk of literature and art. It continues to be a cause of our international wars and long term conflicts as well as a lot of our domestic strife. If you’re sitting at your keyboard thinking everyone who disagrees with you on policy is just an idiot who doesn’t see the obvious, that should be a big red flag to you about your own perspective. But here you are, sitting there thinking you’re just the only person who’s ever thought about it and everyone else in the city who sees it differently must just be stupid. |
Not wanting schoolchildren to be randomly gunned down is the very highest of QOL?! Do you live in a video game?! |
Not wanting to get robbed and killed by 13 year old kids on the metro is a bigger concern to me right now. |
The people who are appalled by this year's spik in violence and can't connect the dots to the policies they've supported are stupid. If they CAN connect the dots and haven't had a change of heart on policy, then they are people who stubbornly want to have their cake and eat it too. Which is impossible (and stupid. and derelict as well.) |
No. Profiling is the most efficient. Don't make this into the TSA bullshit of patting down every third person, even if that person is a 90 year in a wheelchair. We know who is committing the crimes, that is who needs to be profiled. |
You are going to want to sit down for this revelation. But criminals do not follow laws. Breathtaking I know. Which is why we need to lock away people (i.e., criminals) that do anything on the list above. No mercy. |
And you think strapping a Glock and gunning down the next 13 year old who so much as accidentally bumps into you with his book bag is freedom? |
| If you're wearing a balaclava and it's not a cold winter day: Pat down. This isn't rocket science. |
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A 16 year old has been arrested in connection to this shooting today: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/16-year-old-arrested-in-killing-of-14-year-old-at-brookland-metro-station-sources-say/3587475/
Waiting to see what he's charged with. |
.......murder? |