Your loss. Those are very rare occurrences and you're missing out on a great city. |
| DC has a juvenile crime problem but unfortunately all of the approaches to 'fix' the issue are likely to be long-term and very expensive. Everyone wants a quick fix in 1-2 election cycles, but the problems are generational problems, systemic problems, educational problems. None of which are a quick or an easy fix. |
What’s the fix? Where has it worked? |
Why can’t we be more like Nordic countries? They don’t have these problems in Sweden. |
Not sure if serious... |
| DC is a laughing dump. |
Why not? What is so different about the US? If we got rid of the guns we would be exactly the same as the Netherlands. |
Because it’s impossible to get rid of the guns at this point. There are like 100MM guns in circulation. Maybe if we outlaw ammunition or tax it at 10000%…though people would figure out a way to make their own. |
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My Aunt was just
Murdered in her house in the Philadelphia suburbs in what was considered a very safe area. She was 89. She had lived in the same brick rancher since 1963. It is so sad she was killed by two gunshots in the home. |
Baltimore and Philadelphia have shown huge improvement just over the past couple of years. |
Fathers in the home. |
You think the people from the rough areas of DC, Baltimore or New York (the ones driving up our national gun crime rates) are “exactly the same as” the people in Sweden and the Netherlands? Are you being sarcastic? |
| Try all youth above 16 and 18 as adults for carrying crime severity, more mandatory jail time and death penalty try that for a few years and if that doesn't work try something else. But we've tried the opposite its not working |
I think in DC even if they treated the 20,21,22,23,24,25 year olds as adults it would already be an improvement. They don’t consider criminals as adults in DC until they’re 26 years old!!! They’re literally doing everything they can to keep criminals on the streets, and then people wonder why there’s a crime problem. |