Gun shots on 14th street tonight!

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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.

Canada is the nation most like the US.

They ban handguns. They have lots of rifles.
They have low gun crime.

That could be us.

Seriously — if we had a federal gun law like Canada, something that should be a bipartisan easy lift, that shooting on 14th street wouldn’t have happened.

Idle kids would be fighting their fights with fists or knives, not killing bystanders with errant bullets because it’s easy to get a handgun from Virginia or WV.

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(And a federal handgun ban is easily constitutional — as both parties agreed until the NRA and Fed Soc rewrote the meaning of the 2nd amendment.)

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly- the gentrify crowd did this. You can’t just toss up row houses and close your eyes to the actual needs of the neighborhood. The problems of systematic/generational racism aren’t going to vanish simply because you bought an over priced home.
I see strong parallels between gentrifiers and climate change deniers. You think that you can muscle through any ill effects of your actions. Turns out- you are both wrong.
So keep pricing people out of the city… and see how that plays out for you.

It’s not so much the gentrification. It’s the fact that the gentrifiers mostly refuse to send their kids to the neighborhood schools which would have the biggest impact on improving AA test scores, outcomes, etc. Instead they flee for charters or privates and walk by the BLM signs on their stoops every day. They are guilty of the worst form of systematic racism, but they are totally clueless about it.

Honest question- do you work in DCPS? I do. Yes it’d be great for more kids to attend Dcps. However this past year had (hopefully) taught us that public schools CANnOT be the workshops for fixing everything society cannot. Does public education play a large role- you bet! Is it a cure for wealth and racism inequality, not in and of itself.

I don’t work in DCPS. I just have a lot of friends who are are raising families in Logan. They tell me how much they “love” their neighborhoods and raising their kids “in the city”. But not one of them send their kids to DCPS. They are total hypocrites and they love to make fun of the Ward 3 parents at every turn. They are the worst kind of racists.

Nope. Donald Trump and the white sumpremacist cult he leads is the worst kind and your inability to understand the true problems in society is why it won’t get better for you.

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Anonymous wrote:The pandemic and increasing inequality -- among other things -- are pushing people of all races, colors, and socioeconomic statuses over the edge. Gun violence is up nationwide. Domestic violence is up nationwide. No where is "safe."

Nice excuse. This is the predictable consequence of last summer’s rioting and anti-police/pro-criminal measures adopted by the DC city government. Did you know that there are actually studies that have demonstrated that anti-police protests are often followed by an increase in crime?

Here’s an example:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/22360290/black-lives-matter-protest-crime-ferguson-effects-murder

This would be true if increases in crime were confined to areas that saw rioting and anti-police protests. They are not.

LOL. There were protests all over the country. Name a city where they didn't happen.

You're too narrowly focused on urban areas and gun crimes.

Do tell about the non-urban areas. I’m sure you’re a real expert on rural communities.

Urban crime receives more attention due to that major news agencies are located in the urban area. Does white poor people shot at each other? You dont see or hear it because no journalists live or have any connection to where white on white shooting happens.

There are a lot fewer white people shooting white people. That’s why you hear less about it. Go ahead and look up the statistics if you don’t believe me.

White men kill all kinds of people all the f***ing time and esp their wives/GFs but you don’t want to talk abt that at all, do you?

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At least we have a President now who’s spent his entire career hammering home just how horrible crime is in cities along with a tough “throw away the key” proesecutor as VP.

They truly are the perfect pair to reduce urban crime if they want to.

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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.

Canada is the nation most like the US.

They ban handguns. They have lots of rifles.
They have low gun crime.

That could be us.

Seriously — if we had a federal gun law like Canada, something that should be a bipartisan easy lift, that shooting on 14th street wouldn’t have happened.

Idle kids would be fighting their fights with fists or knives, not killing bystanders with errant bullets because it’s easy to get a handgun from Virginia or WV.

Canada, in additition to being a relatively sparsely populated country, most decidedly does not “ban” handguns.

The US federal government bans heroin, cocaine, fentanyl and even marijuana. How’s that working out?

The Magic Magnet is a fantasy.

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Anonymous wrote:(And a federal handgun ban is easily constitutional — as both parties agreed until the NRA and Fed Soc rewrote the meaning of the 2nd amendment.)

Yeah, nobody “rewrote” the Second Amendment. It’s been right there since 1789.

And no one who can read English and has looked even slightly into the relevant drafting history has ever thought of a handgun “ban” as “easily constitutional.” (Not that there’s anything such as “easily” constitutional; something is either constitutional or it is not.)


And the political parties are not the ones who adjudicate issues of constitutionality.

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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.

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

I am posting from six months in the future. Want too know the price of Bitcoin? Regardless, the Supreme Court handles interpretation of law, not popular vote. We don't have mob rule in the US. Some also call it direct or pure democracy. You really wouldn't want that.

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

A solution: None of those people have any business being out in public. It's a pandemic! Government issued travel papers for everyone.

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2024 potus hopeful Sen. Tom Cotton:

"Liberal Media Is ‘Paying More Attention’ to D.C. Crime Because It Happened Near ‘Where Politicians and Bureaucrats Eat’"

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/07/23/cotton-liberal-media-is-paying-more-attention-to-d-c-crime-because-it-happened-near-where-politicians-and-bureaucrats-eat/

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Actually, guns cause people to shoot others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201511/the-trigger-pulls-the-finger

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Actually, guns cause people to shoot others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201511/the-trigger-pulls-the-finger

That certainly is interesting research, and I do believe that guns and other types of weapons can elicit automatic aggression (the effect in the real world is probably rather small, though). However, less than 1 in 10 crimes committed with a gun is with a gun that was legally purchased: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf. This suggests that, in the vast majority of cases, people who intend to commit crimes procure guns through illegal methods rather than vice versa

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Actually, guns cause people to shoot others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201511/the-trigger-pulls-the-finger

That certainly is interesting research, and I do believe that guns and other types of weapons can elicit automatic aggression (the effect in the real world is probably rather small, though). However, less than 1 in 10 crimes committed with a gun is with a gun that was legally purchased: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf. This suggests that, in the vast majority of cases, people who intend to commit crimes procure guns through illegal methods rather than vice versa

No one cares whether the gun was purchased illegally or legally? The fact that it exists at all is the issue at hand here.

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Anonymous wrote:2024 potus hopeful Sen. Tom Cotton:

"Liberal Media Is ‘Paying More Attention’ to D.C. Crime Because It Happened Near ‘Where Politicians and Bureaucrats Eat’"

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/07/23/cotton-liberal-media-is-paying-more-attention-to-d-c-crime-because-it-happened-near-where-politicians-and-bureaucrats-eat/

I’m sad to say i agree and I think he’s a piece of sht. The city is too woke and it’s resulting in rising crime. The youth rehabilitation act, the slap on the wrist release of teens who commit violent crime. This is a Biden voter saying this. Weak as fk on crime policy is making me conservative.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Actually, guns cause people to shoot others.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201511/the-trigger-pulls-the-finger

That certainly is interesting research, and I do believe that guns and other types of weapons can elicit automatic aggression (the effect in the real world is probably rather small, though). However, less than 1 in 10 crimes committed with a gun is with a gun that was legally purchased: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/suficspi16.pdf. This suggests that, in the vast majority of cases, people who intend to commit crimes procure guns through illegal methods rather than vice versa

No one cares whether the gun was purchased illegally or legally? The fact that it exists at all is the issue at hand here.

Do you live your entire life according to the emotionalist delusion that you can just wish away “evil” inanimate objects? Hysterical confabulations don’t solve crime problems (or any other problems). Lock up criminals. It ended the crack wars. It will end the gang wars on the street now too. Federal and local prosecution for violent and firearm related crimes, with consecutive sentencing. But there’s no stomach for that.