Congressional Intern shot and killed in DC

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Anonymous wrote:Condolences to the family for their tremendous loss. Shame on Trump. Shame on GOP. Shame on NRA.

The NRA supports gang shooting? I love this idea that criminals use legal guns. They are using ghost guns which are not registered. They are impossible to track. The NRA does nor support ghost guns. Also, the US Attorney in DC let's tons of criminals put on release who have committed crimes with guns. I was on a grand jury in DC and it was shocking how many felons are walking free in DC with a gun. They are not apprehended unless the commit another felony.

Kid's boss was endorsed by the NRA. Of course criminals aren't going to use legal guns; they have too many easier, cheaper ways to get them, because the NRA and their disciples flood the world with guns. More guns, more firepower, fewer speedbumps to getting a gun. The average legal gun owner has 4-5 individual weapons; there are whole conventions and trade shows with trucks stuffed with guns. So of course it's going to be easy for criminals to get them.

If there were simply fewer guns, fewer criminals would be able to get them. Do you hear about a lot of stolen Ferraris? No. Because there are very few Ferraris compared to Hyundais. This shouldn't be hard, if it weren't for the right-wing death cult. Guns should be rare, expensive, tracked, and have a real-world purpose. Hunting, fine. Target skill shooting, fine. Arsenal for potential gov't overthrow? Insanity. Like the gravy seals are going to go up against the US Army. Deluded. Unhinged. And totally supported by Ron Estes of Kansas.

Criminals do not get their guns through lawful channels.

Lock up felons in possession for ten years, plus the local gun possession charge, plus the other associated violations. See how fast the problem goes away.

No, they steal them. Which is easy, because there are SO DAMN MANY OF THEM. Reduce the guns, reduce the gun crime. That easy.

Very easy- There are SO DAMN MANY Criminals. Get them off the streets, HARD, and watch what happens. Every time you lock up a criminal for legit year's and charges, the crime goes down, because each of them is obviously committing crimes consistently. Criminals will find a way to get weapons and guns. Mexican cartels would just get even more powerful if they became the more exclusive supplier of weapons. Get the criminals, and the crime shrinks. DC is against this, as well documented on this forum thread.

We tried that, though. The US has the largest prison system in the world. (Much of it for-profit, btw, creating an incentive to lock up even more people.)

And it didn't work. I also hate the revolving prison door. But surely you can see that wanton incarceration actually made it worse? Destroyed the very structures that could have prevented a lot of the crime in the first place? I'd be on board with a restructuring of the criminal code, to focus on putting violent criminals away for a long time, and re-directing non-violent criminals to something other than prison. Unfortunately, that doesn't satisfy the right, who likes to cage people they see as subhuman.

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Anonymous wrote:Condolences to the family for their tremendous loss. Shame on Trump. Shame on GOP. Shame on NRA.

The NRA supports gang shooting? I love this idea that criminals use legal guns. They are using ghost guns which are not registered. They are impossible to track. The NRA does nor support ghost guns. Also, the US Attorney in DC let's tons of criminals put on release who have committed crimes with guns. I was on a grand jury in DC and it was shocking how many felons are walking free in DC with a gun. They are not apprehended unless the commit another felony.

Wouldn’t it have been nice if instead of appointing whack jobs and TV judges as US Atty for DC, the Magats appointed someone who could actually focus competently on DCs well known issues of criminal justice coordination and prosecution?

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Anonymous wrote:Condolences to the family for their tremendous loss. Shame on Trump. Shame on GOP. Shame on NRA.

The NRA supports gang shooting? I love this idea that criminals use legal guns. They are using ghost guns which are not registered. They are impossible to track. The NRA does nor support ghost guns. Also, the US Attorney in DC let's tons of criminals put on release who have committed crimes with guns. I was on a grand jury in DC and it was shocking how many felons are walking free in DC with a gun. They are not apprehended unless the commit another felony.

Kid's boss was endorsed by the NRA. Of course criminals aren't going to use legal guns; they have too many easier, cheaper ways to get them, because the NRA and their disciples flood the world with guns. More guns, more firepower, fewer speedbumps to getting a gun. The average legal gun owner has 4-5 individual weapons; there are whole conventions and trade shows with trucks stuffed with guns. So of course it's going to be easy for criminals to get them.

If there were simply fewer guns, fewer criminals would be able to get them. Do you hear about a lot of stolen Ferraris? No. Because there are very few Ferraris compared to Hyundais. This shouldn't be hard, if it weren't for the right-wing death cult. Guns should be rare, expensive, tracked, and have a real-world purpose. Hunting, fine. Target skill shooting, fine. Arsenal for potential gov't overthrow? Insanity. Like the gravy seals are going to go up against the US Army. Deluded. Unhinged. And totally supported by Ron Estes of Kansas.

Criminals do not get their guns through lawful channels.

Lock up felons in possession for ten years, plus the local gun possession charge, plus the other associated violations. See how fast the problem goes away.

No, they steal them. Which is easy, because there are SO DAMN MANY OF THEM. Reduce the guns, reduce the gun crime. That easy.

Very easy- There are SO DAMN MANY Criminals. Get them off the streets, HARD, and watch what happens. Every time you lock up a criminal for legit year's and charges, the crime goes down, because each of them is obviously committing crimes consistently. Criminals will find a way to get weapons and guns. Mexican cartels would just get even more powerful if they became the more exclusive supplier of weapons. Get the criminals, and the crime shrinks. DC is against this, as well documented on this forum thread.

We tried that, though. The US has the largest prison system in the world. (Much of it for-profit, btw, creating an incentive to lock up even more people.)

And it didn't work. I also hate the revolving prison door. But surely you can see that wanton incarceration actually made it worse? Destroyed the very structures that could have prevented a lot of the crime in the first place? I'd be on board with a restructuring of the criminal code, to focus on putting violent criminals away for a long time, and re-directing non-violent criminals to something other than prison. Unfortunately, that doesn't satisfy the right, who likes to cage people they see as subhuman.

It’s not “wanton incarceration” to ensure that violent criminals (including juveniles and felons in possession) are swiftly incarcerated. We’re not talking about nonviolent offenders here.

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Not true at all. Most on the right would gladly put these criminals to work and giving them work/life skills. For ex, this intern that was killed was obviously an innocent bystander by gangbangers/criminals.

If it was 5 guys that were caught and involved, they determined the murderer being 1 of them, he gets 25-to-life, no one is batting an eye.

The other 4 getting 10 years no parole, and the back 5 years they are doing state sponsored labor. We need tons of infrastructure improvements, most people on the right would accept them all doing construction work like cement pouring and part of supervised crews that are maintaining roads and bridges.
Then they learn real translatable life skills that is also hard labor that hopefully is a deterrent for future crime.
The determined murderer that got 25-to-life can also be a part of this, but in later years.

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Reminds me of the Fairfax cop outside Tysons Corners who shot and killed a man with a violent criminal record in D.C. The man reached into his waistband, cop rationally assumed he was going for a gun given the man's violent record. What happens? The Progressives raised such a stink about the case that now the cop is facing criminal charges.

The man had a violent record including murder. We are treating these thugs with velvet gloves.

This poor kid is dead no small thanks to all the soft-on-crime idiots who think these folks shouldn't face consequences for their history of violent crime. His blood is on their hands, his parents' grief is on their hands.

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So yesterday there was a mass shooting in Chicago, 18 shot, 4 killed and it wasn’t even in the national news

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Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of the Fairfax cop outside Tysons Corners who shot and killed a man with a violent criminal record in D.C. The man reached into his waistband, cop rationally assumed he was going for a gun given the man's violent record. What happens? The Progressives raised such a stink about the case that now the cop is facing criminal charges.

The man had a violent record including murder. We are treating these thugs with velvet gloves.

This poor kid is dead no small thanks to all the soft-on-crime idiots who think these folks shouldn't face consequences for their history of violent crime. His blood is on their hands, his parents' grief is on their hands.

And on the flipside, you have police officers murdering unarmed people and getting off scot free. The whole system is awful. Bad policies pushed by disingenuous activists, bully racist cops on power trips. It's like it was designed for maximum suffering and minimum societal improvement.

But if there were simply fewer guns in the world, cops wouldn't have to be so fearful. Criminals could stab each other all day long and leave the bystanders out of it. Would it fix it? No. But fewer guns would be a lower body count. It could not be otherwise.

The NRA is not acting in the best interests of anyone except gun manufacturers. Even when people needed guns for daily life-- hunting for food, protecting livestock, hell even as part of a well regulated militia (i know a lot of you have never heard that phrase before; it's the first line of the 2nd amendment) -- they didn't need to stockpile military grade automatic weapons. That's all the doing of the NRA and the death cult politicians. They have convinced you that you need guns you never needed before. Who profits?

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Anonymous wrote:So yesterday there was a mass shooting in Chicago, 18 shot, 4 killed and it wasn’t even in the national news

Black on black crime doesn’t fuel the outrage machine.

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Anonymous wrote:So yesterday there was a mass shooting in Chicago, 18 shot, 4 killed and it wasn’t even in the national news

Black on black crime doesn’t fuel the outrage machine.

Consent matters.

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Lived here for years and I still continue to be shocked at how ghetto DC is

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Anonymous wrote:Lived here for years and I still continue to be shocked at how ghetto DC is

DC has always been a bottom-tier city. It's not really a desirable place to live except for its job market (though the hard-core defenders will always insist otherwise).

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Anonymous wrote:Lived here for years and I still continue to be shocked at how ghetto DC is

Wait till trump and the republican’s BBB kicks in. Add in 10-15 million people looking for food each day will surely dive crime down. Specially in rural areas. Those meth and Fentanyl labs will just disappear!

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Anonymous wrote:So yesterday there was a mass shooting in Chicago, 18 shot, 4 killed and it wasn’t even in the national news

2A baby

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Anonymous wrote:So yesterday there was a mass shooting in Chicago, 18 shot, 4 killed and it wasn’t even in the national news

Sad as it is, I don’t think this intern is national news by that standard either. The Chicago story is big news. So is this.

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Anonymous wrote:A significant number of mass shootings in the U.S. involved legally obtained firearms. Between 1982 and September 2024, 100 mass shootings were committed with legally purchased weapons, while only 16 involved illegally obtained guns.

Approximately 60% of guns used in crimes in the United States were originally legally obtained. This statistic is derived from various analyses of gun trace data, which indicate that a significant portion of firearms involved in criminal activities were purchased legally before being misused.
For instance, a report highlighted that among traced crime guns, a substantial number were initially sold through licensed dealers, reflecting the ongoing debate about gun ownership regulations and their implications for public safety. This data underscores the complexity of gun violence issues, as many firearms used in crimes are not acquired through illegal means.

There are 400 million guns in America. 400,000,000 guns. four hundred million. That is insane. It’s a plague, a public health crisis, and a disgusting shame.

America eats its young. This country is embarrassing.