Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

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Anonymous wrote:This is America - get into a verbal beef with someone and you run a good chance of getting shot. This is certainly not unique to cities. It's tragic.

What about the 4 year old kid?

If you have kids with you all the more reason not to argue with strangers. People who live in DC shouldn’t believe they are exempt from violence because they are white or own an expensive house in Logan Circle.

Victim blame much?

We don’t even know if the mother “argued.” She could have just asked the guy to move the scooter.

Why? Seriously why? If it was in her way he saw her and was being an assh#&#. If it wasn’t in her way why say anything at all. Just move it when he’s gone

Is there some rule book that I can read that can help me know how I can interact with people without getting shot?

Apparently there are all sorts of rules that I was not aware of that would make me a deserved victim of violent crime (and death) that only apply to living in DC but nowhere else.

Help me understand this please!

Is this a serious question? Yes, there are rules in a city, especially DC right now. They are MYOB and STFU. Don’t get into confrontations with strangers on the street. If you get mugged or carjacked, hand it over as calmly as possible.

So we are to allow the most violent among us to control and regulate us for fear that they will arbitrarily exact violence against us?

I’m sorry but I’m not going to live like a hostage to psychotic sociopaths every time I walk outside my house. I’m sad that you feel that you need to.

I mean, what do you want me to say? You apparently feel that due to some intrinsic quality or special right you have, you are immune from crime. You’re not.

DP. So you hide from strangers and are afraid to use your voice in front of them? Your life must be so sad and small.

No, I don’t hide from strangers. I use basic street smarts. If you think that somehow ruins one’s life, maybe you’re not cut out to live in a city.

NP. Look, I get it. You can't afford to move outside the city. But that doesn't mean you need to rationalize violence and death as a normal daily thing that everyone should just accept

It's the poor people who can't afford to buy IN the city. That said, I hope the victims and their family do not find or see this thread.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Actually crime in almost all major cities went down for decades and is still super low?

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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?

DC’s been improving rapidly for decades?

[Anonymous]

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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?

DC’s been improving rapidly for decades?

DC was improving for a long time, but the past few years have seen an uptick which coincides with the rise of Charles Allen’s impact on the criminal justice system in DC.

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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?

You are an idiot. It’s basic human behavior to react at least verbally when someone unexpectedly threatens your child. Stop blaming the victims here simply because you want to make yourself feel better about living in an area with too many acts of random violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"This is a horrible story and one which should teach everyone to be very careful."

It is a horrible story, but instead of teaching people to be "very careful," it should instead serve as evidence for moving to a safer place where your chances of running into people like Bedley are fewer and far between.

This is exactly the wrong lesson. The violent displacement of young families is as pernicious as gentrification itself. Too many stupid random attacks and break-ins every year. Everybody should feel welcome and safe in DC.

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

Yes - I would yell at it and probably kick it if necessary and then tell the authorities who would hunt it down and kill it.

Is that really the analogy you were looking for, pp?

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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.

I’m sorry you’re so suckered by the rightwing media and its billionaire owners.

You’re really trying to deflect blame instead of arguing about the truth of the issue?
You know there are more poor white people in America shooting each other with guns than poor black people, right?

Ps Canada ALSO bans handguns. Not an island. Canada has more rifles per capita than the US! They just don’t have this toxic Republican/billionaire-promoted gun culture. We could do the same. Ban handguns tomorrow. Over time we’d get them out of people’s hands. And many fewer people would die.

[Anonymous]

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

Do you think this man was wearing a sign saying “I shoot kids”? Obviously the victims could not immediately tell this man was homicidal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually crime in almost all major cities went down for decades and is still super low?

It’s increased significantly in almost all major Democrat-controlled cities over the last few years.

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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?

DC’s been improving rapidly for decades?

You think a significant increase in homicides over the last several years marks an improvement? No. Fewer homicides are better than more. That’s the direction we want to head.

[Anonymous]

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

Do you think this man was wearing a sign saying “I shoot kids”? Obviously the victims could not immediately tell this man was homicidal.

But he was ramming kids with a scooter so while they didn't know he had a gun and would shoot kids, he obv didn't GAF about them kids and was spoiling for some kind of fight.

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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.

Snort.

Over 1,000 people died by guns in VA in 2019. Plus, many of the people doing the shooting in DC are from VA and MD.
Sorry the truth doesn't fit your narrative. Guns need to be banned in America just like they are in every other civilized country where they don't lose tens of thousands of people to gun violence every year. Ignorance like yours is deadly.

[Anonymous]

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

Do you think this man was wearing a sign saying “I shoot kids”? Obviously the victims could not immediately tell this man was homicidal.

But he was ramming kids with a scooter so while they didn't know he had a gun and would shoot kids, he obv didn't GAF about them kids and was spoiling for some kind of fight.

So there was an eye witness who said he was “ramming kids”? I didn’t see that. The truth is, we don’t know exactly how it played out. Unless they release video of the events in question, no one can say for sure that they know precisely how it went down or how fast.

[Anonymous]

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

Do you think this man was wearing a sign saying “I shoot kids”? Obviously the victims could not immediately tell this man was homicidal.

If the perp was a nun wearing her church outfit, I would agree. Stop being coy. Every fact that would be immediately knowable to the victims should have led them to believe that yes, he might as well have had a sign saying I shoot kids (and women in the back). Do you live under a rock or have you allowed your wokeness to distort your view of reality?