3 homicides in 3 hours

[Anonymous]

D.C. mayor urges Va. lawmakers to pass gun measures to help curb city violence

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-mayor-urges-virginia-politicians-to-pass-gun-reform-to-help-curb-city-violence/2020/01/09/a95416ce-3268-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html%3foutputType=amp

DC's gun problem comes largely from straw purchases of guns in VA and brought into DC.

[Anonymous]

How was it decided that North Capitol is NE? I mean technically one of those homicides could have been in NW.

Another one happened just a few blocks from a million-dollar house people are arguing over in the Real Estate forum. I guess the naysayers are right, this neighborhood really hasn't transitioned enough to justify the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:D.C. mayor urges Va. lawmakers to pass gun measures to help curb city violence

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-mayor-urges-virginia-politicians-to-pass-gun-reform-to-help-curb-city-violence/2020/01/09/a95416ce-3268-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html%3foutputType=amp

DC's gun problem comes largely from straw purchases of guns in VA and brought into DC.

No, it comes largely from violent criminals stealing or buying guns illegally and then choosing to shoot people.

[Anonymous]

Straw purchases are already illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But the violence interrupters were supposed to take care of all this. That's what Allen and Nadeau keep telling me.

"Pardon me, but may I interrupt your violence? No? Ah, well have a nice shoot out, then!"

LOL

And don't forget the social worker who will be on the scene within 3-5 days, instead of those bothersome police, in case the perp needs counseling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Straw purchases are already illegal.

+1 So is murder, yet here we are. This issue cannot be legislated away

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straw purchases are already illegal.

+1 So is murder, yet here we are. This issue cannot be legislated away

Except through further legislation that affects everyone who isn’t a criminal to begin with.

Because THIS TIME, it’ll finally work.

And if not, who cares? We took guns away from people we don’t like. Still a win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straw purchases are already illegal.

+1 So is murder, yet here we are. This issue cannot be legislated away

I say, keep blaming VA and other states, instead of the criminals. It just makes the clowns in DC look even dumber.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why you all think NE is safe. I lived in the District from 2005-2015 and finally managed to convince DH (who moved there in 2012) that no number of Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, or luxury condo buildings would make the District safe to raise a family in, except for upper NW.

He wanted to buy in Petworth, convinced it was “getting better.”

So glad we didn’t do that. DC will never really improve. If you don’t want to deal with murders in your neighborhood, move somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Straw purchases are already illegal.

+1 So is murder, yet here we are. This issue cannot be legislated away

I say, keep blaming VA and other states, instead of the criminals. It just makes the clowns in DC look even dumber.

Yes, yes, it's all the fault of VA where we have very very little crime but it's much easier to get a gun. It's not all criminals that live in DC... no...if only Virginia didn't exist, all the low socioeconomic status criminals in DC would suddenly start obeying laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Protesting the fact that DC residents vote for reasonable and helpful gun control laws for the District that Congress, aka people who don't live here, promptly get rid of because DC isn't a state, so the pro gun states get to tell DC what to do in their city, even when it is the polar opposite of what they want and vote for in their own laws.

It's like England repealing the rules that American colonies set for themselves.

You think that DC becoming a state would have anything to do with guns flooding over from VA? Please

[Anonymous]

Curious to all of you blaming Virginia - why do you think all other surrounding states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, even Delaware, have a higher rate of gun murders than Virginia? And, in all of these states, the gun ownership rate is actually LOWER than Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

Perhaps Virginia is not at fault for your badly constructed societies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious to all of you blaming Virginia - why do you think all other surrounding states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, even Delaware, have a higher rate of gun murders than Virginia? And, in all of these states, the gun ownership rate is actually LOWER than Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

Perhaps Virginia is not at fault for your badly constructed societies.

If guns weren’t so easy to get in Virginia, many of those other states would have less violence too. The problem is everyone in Virginia already HAS a gun (or ten) so the gun sellers in VA lure people in from other states to sell their guns to. Other states require ID, background checks, waiting periods, gun licenses, etc. Virginia does none of that. Just walk into the local Walmart and buy a uzi. Or go to any of the hundreds of gun shows and buy a machine gun, no questions asked. It’s insanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious to all of you blaming Virginia - why do you think all other surrounding states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, even Delaware, have a higher rate of gun murders than Virginia? And, in all of these states, the gun ownership rate is actually LOWER than Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

Perhaps Virginia is not at fault for your badly constructed societies.

If guns weren’t so easy to get in Virginia, many of those other states would have less violence too. The problem is everyone in Virginia already HAS a gun (or ten) so the gun sellers in VA lure people in from other states to sell their guns to. Other states require ID, background checks, waiting periods, gun licenses, etc. Virginia does none of that. Just walk into the local Walmart and buy a uzi. Or go to any of the hundreds of gun shows and buy a machine gun, no questions asked. It’s insanity.

I agree; it's total insanity. But so is the poster who claims that if DC became a state, this would somehow magically change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious to all of you blaming Virginia - why do you think all other surrounding states, including Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, even Delaware, have a higher rate of gun murders than Virginia? And, in all of these states, the gun ownership rate is actually LOWER than Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

Perhaps Virginia is not at fault for your badly constructed societies.

If guns weren’t so easy to get in Virginia, many of those other states would have less violence too. The problem is everyone in Virginia already HAS a gun (or ten) so the gun sellers in VA lure people in from other states to sell their guns to. Other states require ID, background checks, waiting periods, gun licenses, etc. Virginia does none of that. Just walk into the local Walmart and buy a uzi. Or go to any of the hundreds of gun shows and buy a machine gun, no questions asked. It’s insanity.

Ummmm I bought a gun in VA and most certainly had to go through a background check.