Gun violence in Columbia Heights DC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yet they keep voting Democrat. Go figure![/quote

Do Republicans even run candidates for councilmembers or do they not even bother because they know that their "ideas" are dead on arrival?

Marriage and family, hard work, and personal responsibility aren't exactly winning platforms in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I thought it was all the guns coming in from evil Virginia that drive DC's rampant crime and murder. Now you're telling me it's a man who stands on the 1400 block of Fairmont? But how can I keep my hate Virginia narrative alive in light of this info

There’s plenty of reasons to hate va, including unnecessary and obnoxious comments like this one. Wonder where this man gets his guns from? Most likely va

I’d be mad too. VA residents can own firearms and behave, you can’t.

You are missing the point. It is the trade in illegal markets (drugs and guns) that is causing the gun violence, not an inability to behave. You too would be shooting a gun on the streets of Columbia Heights if you were trading in these goods.

Disagree. It is the criminals dealing drugs and guns, and shooting guns, that are causing the violence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP I thought it was all the guns coming in from evil Virginia that drive DC's rampant crime and murder. Now you're telling me it's a man who stands on the 1400 block of Fairmont? But how can I keep my hate Virginia narrative alive in light of this info

There’s plenty of reasons to hate va, including unnecessary and obnoxious comments like this one. Wonder where this man gets his guns from? Most likely va

I’d be mad too. VA residents can own firearms and behave, you can’t.

You are missing the point. It is the trade in illegal markets (drugs and guns) that is causing the gun violence, not an inability to behave. You too would be shooting a gun on the streets of Columbia Heights if you were trading in these goods.

Disagree. It is the criminals dealing drugs and guns, and shooting guns, that are causing the violence.

It sounds like you are saying that if we had different people, individuals less prone to violence, dealing the drugs and guns, all would be peaceful. I don't agree. The problem is the trade in illegal goods. While some people in these trades are psychopaths, the nature of the business itself is so risky that it easily turns violent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As long as people call it "gun violence" or "gun deaths" the issue will never be fixed. Blaming these incidences on an inanimate object versus the criminals that are doing the actual violence is not helping.

A problem first needs to be identified before it can be fixed. And even than the "fix" needs to start in the community that is affected and causing it.

This is so true. It drives me nuts that the WaPo -- democracy dies in darkness! -- intentionally MISINFORMS it's readership by presenting it as a problem of inanimate objects rather than one of of criminals and the sub-cultures that create and excuses them. You can't fix a problem you refuse to identity.

I'm opposed to both guns and violent criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Preach OP! I’ve been here for 22 years. We’re very close to the recent shooting of the 15 year old. I think the first thing to work on is getting rid of Brianne Nadeau. She is worthless.

Agreed. Salah seems to be the only sensible alternative. We need someone who can actually work with MPD. Meanwhile Sabel is just another Brianne.

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived in the greater CH area for 10 years and the NE corner of 14 and Park is the worst it's ever been. More guys are laying around on the sidewalk, they stink, they're always drunk. So many government resources are constantly spent on these guys.

Sabel Harris is a babe but I don't see how she's much different than Brianne.

A candidate who meaningfully differentiated themselves from Brianne would have wiped the floor with her, because Ward 1 residents are sick of her utter incompetence. But Sabel seems to be believe in the same provably failed policies as Brianne and thinks running on a pledge of better constituent services will win. It won't, and we'll be stuck with that cretin for another four years.

Salah Czapary seems to be doing that which is so refreshing. His recent Washington post op-Ed was great and he even went after Brianne on Twitter for going all in on defunding MPD and now backtracking. He seems like the only viable alternative in the race.

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Racism is not the cause.

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I wish this resonated in dc: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/20/abigail-spanberger-virginia-policing-message-00026211?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

[Anonymous]

We definitely need more police here. There are bus lanes with, sometime full blocks of no one parked in them!! If we can't fill those lanes up with officers sitting in their cars then what are we even paying taxes for??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet they keep voting Democrat. Go figure![/quote

Do Republicans even run candidates for councilmembers or do they not even bother because they know that their "ideas" are dead on arrival?

Marriage and family, hard work, and personal responsibility aren't exactly winning platforms in DC.

It’s the observation that Charles Murray made in Coming Apart about UMC whites practicing these values at a very high rate but scoffing at politicians who advocate for the same values because they think such admonitions are problematic, classist, racist or the like.

Queue someone sniping about The Bell Curve, but Coming Apart is strictly about the rift and self segregation of UMC whites and working class whites and it’s observations about UMC whites adhering to conservative patterns of behavior regarding not having kids out of wedlock, frugality, etc. but not advocating that working class and the poor follow these patterns of behavior applies to this as well.

[Anonymous]

I’ve always believed we let the women off the hook. That boy was clearly involved in a major feud between neighborhood crews. Yet when they interviewed his mother, she said he likes to go for runs at night. You have to be kidding me. I obviously don’t know how much it at all his mother and grandmother were involved but that thing about the running really stuck with me because it takes a lot of balls to tell a stupid lie like that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve always believed we let the women off the hook. That boy was clearly involved in a major feud between neighborhood crews. Yet when they interviewed his mother, she said he likes to go for runs at night. You have to be kidding me. I obviously don’t know how much it at all his mother and grandmother were involved but that thing about the running really stuck with me because it takes a lot of balls to tell a stupid lie like that.

Stop blaming women for the actions of men, it's tiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish this resonated in dc: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/20/abigail-spanberger-virginia-policing-message-00026211?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

Spanberger is a crybaby who is barely better than the Synema of the Democrats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish this resonated in dc: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/20/abigail-spanberger-virginia-policing-message-00026211?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

Spanberger is a crybaby who is barely better than the Synema of the Democrats.

No, she’s actually the voice of many VA voters who went to the GOP in the governor’s race. On a larger scale, she is pretty representative of many moderates who have been turned off by the far left of the Democratic Party and will likely lead to the GOP making gains in the 2022 mid term elections. Ignore these voices at your peril, just ask Terry McAuliffe.