10-year-old girl killed in DC

[Anonymous]

People! This isn’t about the guns!

It’s about “thug life” and poverty and desperation and our criminal justice system that allows juvenile offenders roam free because we do not know how to rehabilitate people and don’t want to automatically harden them more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s laughable that people would post and advocate for gun control of the general law abiding public and would refuse to come forward and tell their witness account and actually punish the bad people with the guns. Do you see how incredibly stupid you sound? Do you?

Do you know what an idiot you sound like? Seriously, you have boiled down a complicated, multi-pronged issue to "good guys with guns" vs. "snitches get stitches".
You know I truly detest small-minded thinkers like you. People who cannot seem to understand or care that gun control is not synonomous with gun eradication or that poor, desperate and marginalized people do not always have the options you ASS-UME they do or should. You are a person who sees the world solely thru your small, narrow experience. You sitting around checking everybody else and don't know jack s*** about what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

Violence like this happens when you concentrate poverty in one location. Gentrification speeds like that process a little bit. Violent crime going up 45% in DC isnt a blip, but a symptom of a bigger problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People! This isn’t about the guns!

It’s about “thug life” and poverty and desperation and our criminal justice system that allows juvenile offenders roam free because we do not know how to rehabilitate people and don’t want to automatically harden them more.

How do you know the assailants are juveniles? Look if you have any information about this case you really need to contact the police they need the public’s help in identifying and locating the gunmen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s laughable that people would post and advocate for gun control of the general law abiding public and would refuse to come forward and tell their witness account and actually punish the bad people with the guns. Do you see how incredibly stupid you sound? Do you?

Do you know what an idiot you sound like? Seriously, you have boiled down a complicated, multi-pronged issue to "good guys with guns" vs. "snitches get stitches".
You know I truly detest small-minded thinkers like you. People who cannot seem to understand or care that gun control is not synonomous with gun eradication or that poor, desperate and marginalized people do not always have the options you ASS-UME they do or should. You are a person who sees the world solely thru your small, narrow experience. You sitting around checking everybody else and don't know jack s*** about what you are talking about.

Actually gun control IS synonymous with gun eradication. That IS the end-game.


That cat is out of the bag, courtesy of your associates who've said exactly that, and make no bones about it. Frankly, I appreciate their honesty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People! This isn’t about the guns!

It’s about “thug life” and poverty and desperation and our criminal justice system that allows juvenile offenders roam free because we do not know how to rehabilitate people and don’t want to automatically harden them more.

But we're going to make it about guns

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Violence like this happens when you concentrate poverty in one location. Gentrification speeds like that process a little bit. Violent crime going up 45% in DC isnt a blip, but a symptom of a bigger problem.

Clay Terrace has been poverty personified for at least 4 decades. This is not a new thing. This girl is hardly the first (or second, or third, fifth, or tenth) child murdered there.

You have a community that tolerates this. That's what it comes down to. They tolerate it. Because it keeps happening.

There are people in that neighborhood who know exactly who those shooters are. They could pick up their phone right now and make a call to Crimesolvers, and tell the police who did it.

But they don't.


Until they get tired of burying their kids, nothing is going to change. What happened to that little girl was a tragedy. But the community's reaction is the real outrage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Violence like this happens when you concentrate poverty in one location. Gentrification speeds like that process a little bit. Violent crime going up 45% in DC isnt a blip, but a symptom of a bigger problem.

Clay Terrace has been poverty personified for at least 4 decades. This is not a new thing. This girl is hardly the first (or second, or third, fifth, or tenth) child murdered there.

You have a community that tolerates this. That's what it comes down to. They tolerate it. Because it keeps happening.

There are people in that neighborhood who know exactly who those shooters are. They could pick up their phone right now and make a call to Crimesolvers, and tell the police who did it.

But they don't.


Until they get tired of burying their kids, nothing is going to change. What happened to that little girl was a tragedy. But the community's reaction is the real outrage.

As much as you try to spin this to support your pro-gun rhetoric, this is not something you can blame on the community. It's sad that you think the "real outrage" is the community's reaction, when a 10 year old girl is dead and guns kill nearly 1,300 kids a year in the United States. That's the outrage. The US is the only developed country in the world with this level of gun violence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:#1) We, as a community, need to vote in representatives that will fight for gun control. I would love to see all guns banned but I understand that we can't put the genie back in this particular bottle

I’m sure the people that do drive bye like this would obey the gun control laws. What a great idea.

gun control is about getting guns off the street and not letting them be sold in the first place.

Well that's a non-starter.

Come up with an idea that doesn't punish ME for something some criminal did, and then we can talk. But as long as your solution is to punish the people who aren't breaking laws, then I'm going to fight you every step of the way.

That's like me demanding your car be impounded because someone in Kansas drove drunk last night and killed a family in a car crash. Same exact logic. You don't like guns. I get that. No one is forcing you to own one. But you don't get to force others to bend to your will.

Give me a freakin' break. No, gun control is like requiring seatbelts. Gun control is like recalling defective cars. Gun control is like requiring licences and forbidding drunk driving. Gun control is like speed limits. And on and on and on.

The poster clearly stated the purpose of gun control was to stop the sale of guns.

Laws requiring seatbelts, recalling defective cars and outlawing drunk driving weren't used to prevent cars from being sold at all.

Of course they are. Defective cars can't be sold. Cars must be inspected. Cars must obey speed limits and all other traffic laws. Cars can't be used in unsafe ways. The government heavily regulates (CONTROLS) cars and driving. Similarly the government could heavily restrict ownership, sale, and use of guns.

And yet millions of cars are still sold every year.

But the goal of gun control is that no guns are sold at all.


See where you went off the rails? Pick another analogy that allows you to be honest about your argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People! This isn’t about the guns!

It’s about “thug life” and poverty and desperation and our criminal justice system that allows juvenile offenders roam free because we do not know how to rehabilitate people and don’t want to automatically harden them more.

It's also about the guns. I live on a block with with significant gun violence. If guns were scarce and expensive, kids would not be shooting up the block. There would still be ways for them to hurt each other, but how many people get caught in the crossfire of a stabbing? Guns make us unsafe.

It's also about the disinvestment in communities. There are so many smart kids with such a narrow path to get out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s laughable that people would post and advocate for gun control of the general law abiding public and would refuse to come forward and tell their witness account and actually punish the bad people with the guns. Do you see how incredibly stupid you sound? Do you?

Do you know what an idiot you sound like? Seriously, you have boiled down a complicated, multi-pronged issue to "good guys with guns" vs. "snitches get stitches".
You know I truly detest small-minded thinkers like you. People who cannot seem to understand or care that gun control is not synonomous with gun eradication or that poor, desperate and marginalized people do not always have the options you ASS-UME they do or should. You are a person who sees the world solely thru your small, narrow experience. You sitting around checking everybody else and don't know jack s*** about what you are talking about.

Actually gun control IS synonymous with gun eradication. That IS the end-game.


That cat is out of the bag, courtesy of your associates who've said exactly that, and make no bones about it. Frankly, I appreciate their honesty.

What associates? Other people posting on DCUM?
I know you are crazy now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violence like this happens when you concentrate poverty in one location. Gentrification speeds like that process a little bit. Violent crime going up 45% in DC isnt a blip, but a symptom of a bigger problem.

Clay Terrace has been poverty personified for at least 4 decades. This is not a new thing. This girl is hardly the first (or second, or third, fifth, or tenth) child murdered there.

You have a community that tolerates this. That's what it comes down to. They tolerate it. Because it keeps happening.

There are people in that neighborhood who know exactly who those shooters are. They could pick up their phone right now and make a call to Crimesolvers, and tell the police who did it.

But they don't.


Until they get tired of burying their kids, nothing is going to change. What happened to that little girl was a tragedy. But the community's reaction is the real outrage.

How do you tolerate something you have no control over?

Most people in Clay Terrance abhor this, you think they wanted this to happen?

You think people wont call crimestoppers, despite possibly risking their lives to do so? Despite what you think, everyone in poverty stricken neighborhoods arent complicit in allowing a perp to roam free.

But its pretty delusional if you think solving this crime is going to stop future crimes. Crime will always happen in concentrated areas of poverty, period. Stop adding to the concentration high areas of wealth and high areas of poverty (and esp the mixing of people from feuding hoods) through gentrification.... then acting confused and sad when crime happens in these areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s laughable that people would post and advocate for gun control of the general law abiding public and would refuse to come forward and tell their witness account and actually punish the bad people with the guns. Do you see how incredibly stupid you sound? Do you?

Do you know what an idiot you sound like? Seriously, you have boiled down a complicated, multi-pronged issue to "good guys with guns" vs. "snitches get stitches".
You know I truly detest small-minded thinkers like you. People who cannot seem to understand or care that gun control is not synonomous with gun eradication or that poor, desperate and marginalized people do not always have the options you ASS-UME they do or should. You are a person who sees the world solely thru your small, narrow experience. You sitting around checking everybody else and don't know jack s*** about what you are talking about.

Yawn

[Anonymous]

Until we start to raise our children here in the community, this wont end. Do you see any other race of people in this country where kids out all the time just gunning their own people down in the street, including 10 year old girls? This is what happens when people dont raise their kids. Please please dont have them babies if you aint going to raise them.

[Anonymous]

Was this really random, or were some of the people shot related to criminals and this was possibly a gang hit?