Shooting outside Nats Park
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Anonymous
Good job? You seem super proud of yourself just for going to a ball game. |
Anonymous
It doesn't have to be built by HUD for it to effectively be a project. There was an article the other week about a complex built in the 80s in DC that used to be nice, and now is run down because it's setup for "affordable" housing. The owners of the property can't make enough margins to maintain it, and now people are clamoring for the city to take it over and invest in it. This is the same thing that will happen with all of the 66% "affordable" buildings they are trying to build on Reservation 13. Developer is paid to build project, hands it off to a property manager. Property manager can't make enough at those rent levels to properly maintain, building falls into disrepair and is already a center of concentrated poverty. |
Anonymous
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Honest question, why do we try to grandfather in subsidized housing and why do we spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about whether people might have to move if prices increase? I read a study that humans are preprogrammed to always intrinsically root for the underdog, but why so much care? Shouldn’t they just move like everyone else? Why so certain segments of society get such extra special care?
I get regulations that specific a certain amount of housing built should have a workforce housing component (like 20% of a 250 unit building should be reserved for people making 50% Ami), but what is the incentive to grandfather in subsidized housing in places like res 13, which in turn creates a culture of dependence by allowing the same generation of family to live rent free in perpetuity? It doesn’t help the city. Is it some equity focused thing? If so, how does that help equity? It seems like just breeds contempt from tax payers. |
Anonymous
Because the left now wants to call anyone racist for not wanting concentrated poverty in their area. When it's not about race at all it's about not creating what you mentioned which is concentrated general poverty. People don't oppose affordable housing because they are racist, they just don't think it's the best policy solution. |
Anonymous
| Poverty is good for vibrancy. Get with it. |
Anonymous
LOL. Right? Put hat PP in the line of fire, when you don't know where the shooter is, and all you have to protect you is an open baseball field. Bet there was a ton of police presence in light of Saturday nights shootings (plural), other PP. COWARD. |
Anonymous
| *that |
Anonymous
You're like a 1 and 0 type of person, aren't you? |
Anonymous
Didn't really have anything to do with pride but if that's the angle then it sure beats the hell out of being proud of yourself for having an AR-15 and considering yourself to be a tough guy yet actually being too cowardly to go and enjoy a baseball game. |
Anonymous
^ Triggered insecure snowflake thinks he needs to bring his AR-15 to a baseball game while calling others "coward" = deep, burning, self-unaware IRONY. And no, there wasn't any more police or security present than usual. |
Anonymous
I own over a dozen AR’s and have season tickets. I guess I’m even braver than you are. |
Anonymous
I think the word you meant was "more of a bragger" than "braver" 
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Anonymous
+1. I was just outside the gate (the gate attendants directed us to leave the stadium) when we heard the second set of gunshots and everyone yelled “run!” and scattered. I wondered later if I had imagined it, as well (but I clearly wasn’t the only one). As for timing, my teen was up in the concourse and we talked at 9:31 (per my phone), and I know that first set of gunshots was at least several minutes before that, as we heard the noise, saw the players had disappeared, wondered if that was gunfire, watched people running from the third base line, talked about what to do, noticed the club seats were empty, and, had started halfway up the stairs, which was slowly moving line. Fifteen minutes is a *long* time when something like that is going on. Lots of people — like me— went straight out toward the incident, because that’s what the ushers *told* them to do. Like I said, there is no excuse for them not having the ability to at least lock down the stadium exits almost instantaneously. Was there *no one* from security on that side of the stadium who could see what was going on and who could communicate to the head of security? I just talked to someone who used work with food vendors at the stadium, and they said it’s been clear to them for a while that the Nats had no plan about how to handle an incident like this. I’ve been in buildings where there were shooting and other security breach incidents and the lock down/evacuate orders come almost instantaneously. The Nats/DC government don’t want to admit it, but a major security review is in order. |
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"As for timing, my teen was up in the concourse and we talked at 9:31 (per my phone), and I know that first set of gunshots was at least several minutes before that, as we heard the noise, saw the players had disappeared, wondered if that was gunfire, watched people running from the third base line, talked about what to do, noticed the club seats were empty, and, had started halfway up the stairs, which was slowly moving line. Fifteen minutes is a *long* time when something like that is going on. Lots of people — like me— went straight out toward the incident, because that’s what the ushers *told* them to do. Like I said, there is no excuse for them not having the ability to at least lock down the stadium exits almost instantaneously. Was there *no one* from security on that side of the stadium who could see what was going on and who could communicate to the head of security?
I just talked to someone who used work with food vendors at the stadium, and they said it’s been clear to them for a while that the Nats had no plan about how to handle an incident like this. I’ve been in buildings where there were shooting and other security breach incidents and the lock down/evacuate orders come almost instantaneously. The Nats/DC government don’t want to admit it, but a major security review is in order." +1 It absolutely seemed an eternity, and the staff at Nats Park clearly doesn't GAF. They may be accustomed to gunfire, but not everyone is, and that is okay. |