Another shooting during the daytime iDC

[Anonymous]

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Because full time telework won't last forever? Because we like walking to things? Going to restaurants that aren't Applebees? Being able to have more than two drinks at a party or bar without paying $50 to get home (and back to your car the next day) and wondering if you will even be able to get an Uber to the ass end of nowhere? Being able to go to a museum or concert or play without it being an all day production? Because we actually understand statistics and know that there is no practical difference between your likelihood of being murdered whether you live in the city or suburbs as long as you're not selling drugs or joining a gang? Because we don't want to contribute to wasteful, car-based, suburban sprawl lifestyles?

So yeah, there are plenty of reasons ANYONE would choose to live in a city, or were you only asking from a Karen perspective?

Amen

[Anonymous]

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The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?

Because full time telework won't last forever? Because we like walking to things? Going to restaurants that aren't Applebees? Being able to have more than two drinks at a party or bar without paying $50 to get home (and back to your car the next day) and wondering if you will even be able to get an Uber to the ass end of nowhere? Being able to go to a museum or concert or play without it being an all day production? Because we actually understand statistics and know that there is no practical difference between your likelihood of being murdered whether you live in the city or suburbs as long as you're not selling drugs or joining a gang? Because we don't want to contribute to wasteful, car-based, suburban sprawl lifestyles?

So yeah, there are plenty of reasons ANYONE would choose to live in a city, or were you only asking from a Karen perspective?

Thanks for blaring to the world how little you actually understand. Well done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?

Because full time telework won't last forever? Because we like walking to things? Going to restaurants that aren't Applebees? Being able to have more than two drinks at a party or bar without paying $50 to get home (and back to your car the next day) and wondering if you will even be able to get an Uber to the ass end of nowhere? Being able to go to a museum or concert or play without it being an all day production? Because we actually understand statistics and know that there is no practical difference between your likelihood of being murdered whether you live in the city or suburbs as long as you're not selling drugs or joining a gang? Because we don't want to contribute to wasteful, car-based, suburban sprawl lifestyles?

So yeah, there are plenty of reasons ANYONE would choose to live in a city, or were you only asking from a Karen perspective?

+1000 some
Some Of us don’t have the personality that takes to live in the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Block party last night in DC. 21 people wounded, a 17 years old father is dead.
Also, a female police officer is wounded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Block party last night in DC. 21 people wounded, a 17 years old father is dead.
Also, a female police officer is wounded.

With over a 100 attendees. I’m sure everyone was wearing a mask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

DC passes local gun laws, Congress repeals them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

DC passes local gun laws, Congress repeals them.

So what? There are rules against large gatherings in DC now, and that didn’t seem to matter. There are laws against assault and murder and all kinds of other things and they don’t seem to matter, either. Why do you put so much stock in the gun laws? Why is THAT the thing that is supposed to prevent this king of violence?

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Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

You can’t do this. Scalia created an individual right to bear arms by twisting the words of the Constitution. In a DC handgun case.

DC wants to ban handguns. Scalia and his Fed Soc buddies made it impossible.
Scalia put the lives of DC children at risk.

The Framers recognized the preexisting natural right of all decent people to efficacious means of self defense and self-provision. Heller merely interpreted the language in accord with its original intent. The failure to enforce laws against criminal possession and misuse of firearms has nothing to do with Heller. It has to do with unwillingness of those in power to remove habitual violent criminals from society.

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Anonymous wrote:We aren't defunding the police fast enough -- that's the problem.

We aren't supporting communities that have been crapped on for centuries. Not enough and not fast enough. Yeah, and defund MPD to fund that. They don't stop shootings.

Columbia Heights is one of the most "supported" communities in the city, nitwit. It is actually a respectable and desirable neighborhood now, which it wasn't 10 years ago.

What are you talking about? If anything, CH has gone downhill from where it was 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

DC passes local gun laws, Congress repeals them.

Exactly. Plus the city was all about unpermitted protests and pulling dow statues. Which is it? Law and order, or not??

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Anonymous wrote:Value of your real estate will go down as people flee to the suburbs.

Nope. Keep dreamin'.

If COVID has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t NEED to live in crowded cities to do our jobs.

The only point to living in the city was being close to the office to spare us a commute. So we put up with the expensive housing, crowded conditions, crime, etc, because at least we weren’t spending two hours in the car every day.

But now? With everyone working mostly from home? Why would ANYONE, especially families, *choose* to live in the city if they didn’t have to?


We have just witnessed the apogee of urban living. It happened in January of 2020. Nowhere to go but down

My wife's firm was about to move 800 employees from NoVA into DC. After the triple wammy of covid, BLM, and DC violence increase, they have as of last week told these employees to expect to work from home potentially forever. So, you may not visibly see DC "shrinking" but DC is losing a LOT of potential growth to its mismanagement and poor policies

I hope someone from that firm is doing Mayor Bower's office the favor of letting them know this, and exactly why they changed their mind about the move.

Let the press know too. Seriously. No tax base = no services

My company has its office in DC. We may not renew the lease for same reasons. I personally will not go down there again as it’s too far and too many homeless begging, too many foul smells, too many Metro or traffic delays and honestly the restaurants are nothing different. Different names but same food types and quality. Yes, it’s nice to walk to places but too many cars competing with bikes, motorized scooters, and pedestrians, and too many crowds. Also, the homicide rate is far higher per capital in DC than in Nova or MD suburbs. In fact, if you look at city rates vs. suburban the stats tell the story that cities are more dangerous. The gap is closing in many cities, but violent crime rates are still higher. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/0526_metropolitan_crime_kneebone_raphael.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ban illegal guns instead of catch and release the people who use them in DC. If DC is serious about guns, enforce laws, right?

DC passes local gun laws, Congress repeals them.

Is there no Gun law in DC? I thought it has the most toughest gun law in DMV.

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Our family jumped through many hoops for a legal permit in DC, which I don't have an issue with. Gun ownership carries responsibility and should be scrutinized. Therefore, it is disturbing to see folks carrying illegal weapons or using them in commission of crimes given a slap on the wrist as has been reported with many of these repeat violators escalating to these killings. Again, no consistency. If this is down to the DA, why isn't the Mayor, Council and our Rep. Norton applying greater pressure? The Police Chief is practically begging for support here.

[Anonymous]

Gun control debates in DC are futile as long as guns are easily available in VA. Does anyone actually think these shootings are with legal weapons?

[Anonymous]

Newsham was on TV saying they were aware of the event but did not have enough officers to break it up. Except he didn't even know what time the party started to gain momentum (sometime between 9 and after midnight when shots fired.) So did he have ANY officer in the area?