Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

[Anonymous]

Just do it. The American motto.

Take the loser giving-up attitude elsewhere.

Democrats are about fixing things, improving things, action, work, and progress.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just do it. The American motto.

Take the loser giving-up attitude elsewhere.

Democrats are about fixing things, improving things, action, work, and progress.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Are you being serious? Do you know how long Democrats have been in charge of DC?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't worry. Mayor is on it:

“We’re devastated,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who attended the briefing. “We have to say to the community, ‘we’re going to stand against gun violence.’ ”

I'm going to say it again:

Antonin Scalia and the Roberts court did this to DC. They made up an individual right to own guns. They did this to help their donors and gain political advantage in red areas outside DC.

It is disgusting and it is despicable. Without the Roberts court, DC would ban guns, and likely VA and MD gun ownership would also be curtailed, greatly decreasing the supply of handguns in DC.

It is time to ban handguns in America.

Yes, because gun deaths were so low in the late 90s in DC. SMH.

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Anonymous wrote:Just read today's updated Post article for more details.

If a white kid raced his scooter into a young black (or Asian or hispanic) family playing on the sidewalk in front of their house, and then blasted away at them when they reacted to it, this would be promptly characterized as a hate crime and be a national top story.

I'm not a fan of hate crime law -- murder is murder, etc, no matter the motivation -- partly because it is applied so inconsistently / politically. In any event, the horrible person who did this should be locked away for the rest of his natural life.

There would also be riots.

Yup

+1. This would be national news. This is an example of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll admit I am victim blaming and I am anti gun too. But common sense tells you that when an adult is doing something as aggressive as running their scooter through kids playing, they are troubled and your words and worse yet, you husbands words defending against this guys response is not the way to go. No one should get shot but do you really think that you telling the person to slow down is going to alter their behavior? At best it's not and at worst you could get attacked.

Next time someone drives a scooter full speed toward your 5 year old please let us know how it goes not saying a thing. And please let us know how your family disowns you afterwards too.

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Anonymous wrote:Just read today's updated Post article for more details.

If a white kid raced his scooter into a young black (or Asian or hispanic) family playing on the sidewalk in front of their house, and then blasted away at them when they reacted to it, this would be promptly characterized as a hate crime and be a national top story.

I'm not a fan of hate crime law -- murder is murder, etc, no matter the motivation -- partly because it is applied so inconsistently / politically. In any event, the horrible person who did this should be locked away for the rest of his natural life.

There would also be riots.

Yup

+1. This would be national news. This is an example of the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Yep. And the races of the perpetrator and victims would be in the headline.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the people who are victim-blaming are disgusting. It takes a community effort to maintain a decent neighborhood. When the response to jerks endangering children by riding an electric scooter is to say, "Go inside and hide" then you are abandoning the streets to the miscreants. That's how neighborhoods stay unsafe.

+1. Well said.

This.

And to any mother on this thread that hasn't told a grown man being rude to take care around her small children, I call bullshit. We should not live our lives in fear of a crazy person with a gun. I will still tell a grown man who rides his e-scooter too close to my toddler to SLOW DOWN and I will not slink away into my house when my family is treated poorly.

Ok, good for you? I'm not sure what your goal is. You can feel good about yourself while acting like a fool and putting yourself and your kid in danger.

DP. Teaching your children that they should not speak up for themselves when others put them in danger usually has pretty bad consequences for children. I wouldn’t recommend it.

Again, most people are not subhuman violent trash. It’s not reasonable to believe you gotta keep quiet at all times because everyone you come across is thinking about shooting you.

Let me set you straight: staying out of the way of potentially dangerous people is what you do to project your child. Getting yourself into dangerous situations is not "speaking up" or teaching your child to "speak up." Do you think you live in a Sesame Street episode? Can you honestly not tell the difference between being assertive and keeping yourself away from risk?

This guy drove a scooter full speed into someone’s family. It had nothing to do with “staying away from trouble.” Trouble came to them.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it awfully hard to believe that none of the "street smart" posters who blame the victims for engaging would never, if their kids were almost hit by a stranger on a scooter, impulsively open their mouths.

You don't know how you'd react in a situation until you're in it.

+1. It makes them feel safe to believe they’re so superior that such a tragedy would never happen to them.

Exactly. If someone tries to run your 5 year old over with an electric scooter and you don’t react in an impulsive, emotional way you are probably either a sociopath, hate your family, or both.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it awfully hard to believe that none of the "street smart" posters who blame the victims for engaging would never, if their kids were almost hit by a stranger on a scooter, impulsively open their mouths.

You don't know how you'd react in a situation until you're in it.

+1. It makes them feel safe to believe they’re so superior that such a tragedy would never happen to them.

Exactly. If someone tries to run your 5 year old over with an electric scooter and you don’t react in an impulsive, emotional way you are probably either a sociopath, hate your family, or both.

No they are arguing you should protect your family instead of engaging the perpetrator. I don’t see how arguing with someone who intentionally harmed your family can have a positive outcome. What exactly are you hoping will happen by yelling at them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just do it. The American motto.

Take the loser giving-up attitude elsewhere.

Democrats are about fixing things, improving things, action, work, and progress.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Lol. Democrats are the change they want to see in the world, hence the crime situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The despair propaganda here is over the top.
Anytime you hear people say “we can do nothing, let’s give up”, you should stop listening to them.
That’s an attitude for losers.
Americans are a can-do people.

We CAN ban guns. We CAN increase enforcement of violent crime. We can do lots of things if we don’t just give up like sad sacks— if we are active and work for them

Good luck taking legally owned firearms from law abiding citizens. Especially when you victim blame and make excuses for the thugs who have obtained firearms illegally.

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Anonymous wrote:You can call it cowardly. I call it trying to stay out of trouble.

If you stay home and hide under the bed, then you’ll really be able to stay out of trouble. Why do you leave your house when you know there are crazy people out in the world? Not very street smart of you.

Because I know there are crazy people in the world, I think carefully before confronting someone who has shown me by their actions that they have reckless disregard for people - such as riding their scooter through children playing. And if I do so, and the persons reponse is inline with their other behavior, I definitely shut up. My husband defending me is not going to be helpful. What did the guy expect? The motorist saying sorry I offended your wife???? No one should be shot and certainly not the child but this need to engage may bring unintended consequences as it did in this case. Unfortunately.

Yes, but you reduce your risk even further if you stay home. You put yourself at risk by leaving your home. That’s on you. If you’re ever a victim of violence outside your home, I hope you remember that you could have stayed home and avoided the situation entirely. But you didn’t.

Well, come to think of it, even if you do stay home permanently, someone can still break in and harm you.
Seriously, though, this is all about uncontrolled guns in the hands of insane people in rhis country. I come from a European city 10 times the size of DC nd 4 year-olds and their mothers just don't get shot at playgrounds there regardless of what said women say. They just don't.
For shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just do it. The American motto.

Take the loser giving-up attitude elsewhere.

Democrats are about fixing things, improving things, action, work, and progress.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Hilarious. Go back to bed Barack.

[Anonymous]

If a rabid dog appeared from the woods and bit your kid, would you actually engage with the animal?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, so here's the thing about the gun argument. [b]Guns proliferate in other communities, but they don't seem to share in the violence that overtakes some cities/communities. Simply saying "GUNS" is simplistic and doesn't come close to identifying deep problems that you probably don't want to discuss anyway.[b]

Also, Australia. Yeah, an island nation that would be pretty easy to seal off from illegal weapons. The USA, not so much. Not to be cliche, but it really applies: when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. That's just how it is with porous borders and many, many guns in circulation. It's a pipedream if you think we could outlaw guns and get rid of "gun violence" at the same time.

+1. Yep. There are plenty of communities with lots of guns, but not all of them are as violent as DC. So there is something else going on, but I think people are afraid to have that conversation.

+2 We have plenty of guns here in NOVA, people just seem to know how to behave better.

I lol every time one of these woke DC residents complains about evil Virginia and all the guns coming into their shining city and ruining everything for the otherwise model citizens. Ummm... you realize that guns from Virginia ALSO flow into *gasp* Virginia. And we are doing just fine. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that perhaps DC's problem is the people living in DC, not the boogieman across the potomac.