Gun shots on 14th street tonight!

[Anonymous]

It’s funny to watch the marks in the GOP base — believing the lies they are fed while the Roberts 6 decides against them, and for corporations and billionaires, 100 times out of 100.

Do you really not understand how you’re being screwed and how these insane gun policies snooker you?

[Anonymous]

Equally entertaining are the gun nuts who think the NRA represents them. NRA shills for gun manufacturers, and no one else--certainly not their members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Equally entertaining are the gun nuts who think the NRA represents them. NRA shills for gun manufacturers, and no one else--certainly not their members.

+1000 All they care about is gun sales. Which is why they don't want common sense gun reforms that would keep guns out of the hands of criminals because that drives demand.

[Anonymous]

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My understanding is that yes, hunger is an issue. The stats the Capital Area Food Bank quote are:

1 out of 10 residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure.
Nearly ⅓ of them are children.

There was an article in the Post talking about how students have suffered and food insecurity via losing access to meals was part of it. I'm not a policy expert by any means, but I do think that the benefits from UBI would extend into the community greatly. Just looking at this one issue, people could then spend money in their communities instead of relying on school meals or food banks. Maybe shoplifting would go down encouraging more grocery stores to open, providing stable jobs. There is something to be said for the dignity of choosing and paying for your own food.

As for the issue of involvement with the drug trade, which I assume is what's fueling these shootings, my hope would be that with better options people would choose something else. No one wants to be terrified for their life as they walk down the street, or see their friends and loved ones hurt or killed. People with better options exercise them. That's why there's a Ward 9.


So the shootings were about food shortages? Stay on topic.

The amount of naïveté on this thread is astounding. Better options already abound. As PPs above have noted--there is no shortage of "programs" for youth in this city, including the long-running Summer Youth Employment Program which extends until the age of 22. In addition, restaurants and hotels are begging for workers now right now and cannot find people to apply. They would rather sit home and collect stimulus checks. But you know what? Taking advantage of those programs and opportunities requires having the capacity to show up. To show up on time. To put down the Insta/Snapchat and listen and do actual work. To be able to speak without every other word beginning with "mother**er" or some other profanity. To not get in confrontations with coworkers or supervisors. And the responsibility to instill those types of life skills lies with parents. Not with schools. Not with "society" at large. But with parents.

And there are a LOT of young AA and Latino kids in this city who DO avail themselves of those opportunities, becoming the first generation in their families to graduate from high school or attend college. But there are some---like the roughnecks doing the banging around 14th Street, who instead find it much easier to get up late, smoke dope, and shoot the sh$t with their buddies on the corner. And those folks don't need more "programs"---they need to be kept in jail and away from the rest of us instead of the continuous "catch and release" cycle for violent offenders that our equally naive city council endorses. One of the reasons there is a Ward 9, as PP put it, is that during the 1980s and 90s, a huge number of middle class AA families decided that they weren't putting up with the crime BS either, and they moved.

As an essential worker in a demographically diverse DC work environment with overwhelmingly POC support staff (healthcare), I agree with this. Some people act offended if you ask them to put down their phone and do their damn job.

I still am left of center, but decades of living in EOTP DC have made me more moderate. DC throws tons of money and resources at “vulnerable” populations. It’s not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a few previous posters pointed out, there’s no simple solution. Programs aren’t enough. More punishment isn’t enough. (Federally banning guns may be enough but let’s just call that one a lost cause) But I do want to hear about city officials giving it the due it deserves. There is a program in DC focused on zero traffic fatalities. We have a “nightlife czar.” Where’s our program to focus on zero gun fatalities? Our gun control czar? We need to be doing all the things. We need to have programs that provide opportunity and create stability for our city’s youth. We also need to get repeat offenders off the street. We need a well-trained police force with good morale and good working relationships with the community. But we also need violent interrupters that have the community’s buy-in and social workers to deal with issues that police just aren’t trained for. It’s not a this or that question. That hasn’t worked. It’s a let’s throw the kitchen sink at it kind of problem. Because that’s the kind of problem it is.

Violence interrupters are a joke!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. Listen to Nixon Judge Burger’s words.

Reportedly, Warren Burger was affectionately referred to by his clerks as “doughnut,” because his head was white in the outside and had nothing in the middle. His ill-informed, unsupported (and unsupportable) emotionalist private opinion is not some holy grail of Constitutional interpretation. The “collective” right interpretation of the Second Amendment is inconsistent with the plain meaning of the text, has been thoroughly discounted by researchers and has in so many words been rejected by the Supreme Court.

In short, who cares what doddering “Doughnut” thought.

I see. You want to listen to “Selected By Billionaires” Scalia, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Alito, and Roberts instead?

Good luck with that. The Fed Soc judges are driving this country into autocracy to reward the donors that selected them.

And you’re attacking a Nixon hardcore conservative Chief Justice who is merely echoing what 95% of America thought, even the NRA, before Selected By Scaife Scalia took over the court.

DP. Regardless of your factual vacuity, the Constitution isn't interpreted by popular vote. Twelve justices on the Supreme Court do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. Listen to Nixon Judge Burger’s words.

Reportedly, Warren Burger was affectionately referred to by his clerks as “doughnut,” because his head was white in the outside and had nothing in the middle. His ill-informed, unsupported (and unsupportable) emotionalist private opinion is not some holy grail of Constitutional interpretation. The “collective” right interpretation of the Second Amendment is inconsistent with the plain meaning of the text, has been thoroughly discounted by researchers and has in so many words been rejected by the Supreme Court.

In short, who cares what doddering “Doughnut” thought.

I see. You want to listen to “Selected By Billionaires” Scalia, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Alito, and Roberts instead?

Good luck with that. The Fed Soc judges are driving this country into autocracy to reward the donors that selected them.

And you’re attacking a Nixon hardcore conservative Chief Justice who is merely echoing what 95% of America thought, even the NRA, before Selected By Scaife Scalia took over the court.

DP. Regardless of your factual vacuity, the Constitution isn't interpreted by popular vote. Twelve justices on the Supreme Court do that.

There are nine Justices on the Supreme Court. Missed that day in civics?

[Anonymous]

Here’s a novel concept. Instead of engaging in all these pointless left vs right macro debates on gun policy why don’t we just research the policies that were in place from 2011-2014, when DC had no more than 110 murders and had one year with 88, the lowest number since 1985 at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. Listen to Nixon Judge Burger’s words.

Reportedly, Warren Burger was affectionately referred to by his clerks as “doughnut,” because his head was white in the outside and had nothing in the middle. His ill-informed, unsupported (and unsupportable) emotionalist private opinion is not some holy grail of Constitutional interpretation. The “collective” right interpretation of the Second Amendment is inconsistent with the plain meaning of the text, has been thoroughly discounted by researchers and has in so many words been rejected by the Supreme Court.

In short, who cares what doddering “Doughnut” thought.

I see. You want to listen to “Selected By Billionaires” Scalia, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Alito, and Roberts instead?

Good luck with that. The Fed Soc judges are driving this country into autocracy to reward the donors that selected them.

And you’re attacking a Nixon hardcore conservative Chief Justice who is merely echoing what 95% of America thought, even the NRA, before Selected By Scaife Scalia took over the court.

DP. Regardless of your factual vacuity, the Constitution isn't interpreted by popular vote. Twelve justices on the Supreme Court do that.

There are nine Justices on the Supreme Court. Missed that day in civics?

If there aren’t 12 justices on the Supreme Court by 2023, and hopefully more, you can flush this country down the toilet.
The Koch goal is really to turn us into Somalia — to a nation flooded with guns, with no consequences for regular shootings (we are already basically there) and with rightwing billionaires ensconced in private estates with private security forces. That’s Somalia - libertarian paradise.

[Anonymous]

Why don’t we just research how Canada has low gun crime? Handgun ban. Or Australia. Gun ban. There’s plenty of examples — even Putin has strong gun laws in his country, while he cozies up to the NRA to flood our streets with guns to destabilize the US.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watch the video. Listen to Nixon Judge Burger’s words.[/quote]

Reportedly, Warren Burger was affectionately referred to by his clerks as “doughnut,” because his head was white in the outside and had nothing in the middle. His ill-informed, unsupported (and unsupportable) emotionalist private opinion is not some holy grail of Constitutional interpretation. The “collective” right interpretation of the Second Amendment is inconsistent with the plain meaning of the text, has been thoroughly discounted by researchers and has in so many words been rejected by the Supreme Court.

In short, who cares what doddering “Doughnut” thought. [/quote]

I see. You want to listen to “Selected By Billionaires” Scalia, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Alito, and Roberts instead?

Good luck with that. The Fed Soc judges are driving this country into autocracy to reward the donors that selected them.

And you’re attacking a Nixon hardcore conservative Chief Justice who is merely echoing what 95% of America thought, even the NRA, before Selected By Scaife Scalia took over the court. [/quote]

DP. Regardless of your factual vacuity, the Constitution isn't interpreted by popular vote. Twelve justices on the Supreme Court do that.[/quote]

There are nine Justices on the Supreme Court. Missed that day in civics?[/quote]


When Joe appoints four additional Justices this winter, the court will no longer be held hostage by RWNJs. They’ll hear a definitive second amendment case next spring, and reverse everything that nazi Scalia did. Then it’s bye bye to your cherished guns. Or you go to jail. It’s going to be an amazing year to come.

[Anonymous]

Returning to the issue at hand: People are shooting hard working, innocent bystanders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Returning to the issue at hand: People are shooting hard working, innocent bystanders.

And the message from Democrats is abstract woke stuff, defund police, or let prisoners out early...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t we just research how Canada has low gun crime? Handgun ban. Or Australia. Gun ban. There’s plenty of examples — even Putin has strong gun laws in his country, while he cozies up to the NRA to flood our streets with guns to destabilize the US.

Apples to oranges comparison. El Salvador has tough gun laws compared to Switzerland. The murder rate was 36 per 100k in El Salvador in 2019 and .54 to 100k in Switzerland during the same year. Comparing the US to countries with completely different populations and income inequality levels is pointless.

[Anonymous]

For the uninitiated, no gun can fire itself. Somebody must buy it. Learn how to use it. Buy ammunition. Load the ammunition. Decided to carry it. Decide to point it. Decide to fire it. Lots of steps in between.