NW Shootings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lot of people on this thread who presumably view themselves as being decent human beings that seem very happy to celebrate someone getting killed in DC because they can blame it on people who have different political beliefs.

No one is celebrating anyone being killed whether they are the victims of criminals or wayward cops. Just keep in mind that the people who want more cops in their neighborhoods aren't afraid of being shot by those same cops. There are a lot of neighborhoods where law abiding people actually fear cops because no matter what the situation, cops will escalate the danger.

[Anonymous]

"Cops escalate the danger."

So you're saying that the police are present when the vast majority of the shootings and murders occur? No, that isn't true. Free your mind. It isn't a black issue, it isn't a white issue it's a crime/murder issue.

How many children under 16 have died this summer during the peaceful protests?

I guess when two black men kill an innocent young man his black life simply doesn't matter. Wish some gun toting thug was gunned down while running towards the police with a firearm then we'd get some action.

[Anonymous]

Does the Black victim’s life matter?

[Anonymous]

It ain’t white people getting shot out here so what y’all worries about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread ain’t about property crime and simple assaults it’s about SHOOTINGS.
Who’s responsible for all these damn guns out here?

I used to be very strongly against firearms, but the older I get, the more I see the real issue. Legal guns aren't the big problem. The vast majority of crimes aren't committed with legal firearms. Illegal guns are the big problem. Unfortunately most cities don't lock people up for long when they're caught with an illegal gun, and the recent "bail reform" is making things even worse. We need to get people off the street who are using (and demanding) illegal guns. The only way to do that is to lock them up for a long time.

I honestly think that if democrats supported enforcing the gun laws that we already have, we would be able to get the republican support to overturn the second amendment IF guns were still a big problem. But it won't happen until we start enforcing the laws we already have.

Ban all the guns, every last one of them, and this stuff won’t happen. If guns are banned, people won’t have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread ain’t about property crime and simple assaults it’s about SHOOTINGS.
Who’s responsible for all these damn guns out here?

I used to be very strongly against firearms, but the older I get, the more I see the real issue. Legal guns aren't the big problem. The vast majority of crimes aren't committed with legal firearms. Illegal guns are the big problem. Unfortunately most cities don't lock people up for long when they're caught with an illegal gun, and the recent "bail reform" is making things even worse. We need to get people off the street who are using (and demanding) illegal guns. The only way to do that is to lock them up for a long time.

I honestly think that if democrats supported enforcing the gun laws that we already have, we would be able to get the republican support to overturn the second amendment IF guns were still a big problem. But it won't happen until we start enforcing the laws we already have.

Ban all the guns, every last one of them, and this stuff won’t happen. If guns are banned, people won’t have them.

What does "ban" mean to you? Like are you planning on actually having any punishments when people ignore you? If so, what are they and why aren't you enforcing them now for people who are carrying non-registered/illegal guns? And if you just plan on arresting people and then releasing them the next day, what good do you think that will do?

[Anonymous]

Have there been any official updates? Have the police identified any suspects with any of the three shootings? Any video footage? Anything in the first 48?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread ain’t about property crime and simple assaults it’s about SHOOTINGS.
Who’s responsible for all these damn guns out here?

I used to be very strongly against firearms, but the older I get, the more I see the real issue. Legal guns aren't the big problem. The vast majority of crimes aren't committed with legal firearms. Illegal guns are the big problem. Unfortunately most cities don't lock people up for long when they're caught with an illegal gun, and the recent "bail reform" is making things even worse. We need to get people off the street who are using (and demanding) illegal guns. The only way to do that is to lock them up for a long time.

I honestly think that if democrats supported enforcing the gun laws that we already have, we would be able to get the republican support to overturn the second amendment IF guns were still a big problem. But it won't happen until we start enforcing the laws we already have.

Ban all the guns, every last one of them, and this stuff won’t happen. If guns are banned, people won’t have them.

Sound reasoning! Just like drugs, right? I've never seen any of those pesky things around. You know, there was not a single year between middle school and college that I could not obtain, from a friend of a friend, weed, LSD, ecstasy, and I would assume other drugs. If I recall these were all "banned"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread ain’t about property crime and simple assaults it’s about SHOOTINGS.
Who’s responsible for all these damn guns out here?

I used to be very strongly against firearms, but the older I get, the more I see the real issue. Legal guns aren't the big problem. The vast majority of crimes aren't committed with legal firearms. Illegal guns are the big problem. Unfortunately most cities don't lock people up for long when they're caught with an illegal gun, and the recent "bail reform" is making things even worse. We need to get people off the street who are using (and demanding) illegal guns. The only way to do that is to lock them up for a long time.

I honestly think that if democrats supported enforcing the gun laws that we already have, we would be able to get the republican support to overturn the second amendment IF guns were still a big problem. But it won't happen until we start enforcing the laws we already have.

Ban all the guns, every last one of them, and this stuff won’t happen. If guns are banned, people won’t have them.

Sound reasoning! Just like drugs, right? I've never seen any of those pesky things around. You know, there was not a single year between middle school and college that I could not obtain, from a friend of a friend, weed, LSD, ecstasy, and I would assume other drugs. If I recall these were all "banned"

You should stop trying to use logic and evidence. The ban the guns crew just don’t want to hear it. They think life is magic and criminals are compliant. They don’t understand that someone who is willing to kill someone else doesn’t care about laws or society, so change all the laws you want. It won’t matter to them. They will still get a gun and they will still kill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have there been any official updates? Have the police identified any suspects with any of the three shootings? Any video footage? Anything in the first 48?

MPD website has no additional information about the three shootings, two murders, this post is about. The website is actually incredibly poorly organized and maintained, but I was able to find the initial notices and there are no updates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have there been any official updates? Have the police identified any suspects with any of the three shootings? Any video footage? Anything in the first 48?

MPD website has no additional information about the three shootings, two murders, this post is about. The website is actually incredibly poorly organized and maintained, but I was able to find the initial notices and there are no updates.

I saw those as well. Sounds like they have nothing.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/homicide-4900-block-connecticut-avenue-northwest

I can't actually find the other one.

Homicide: 4900 Block of Connecticut Avenue, Northwest
Monday, October 5, 2020
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred on Monday, October 5, 2020, in 4900 block of Connecticut Avenue, Northwest.

At approximately 1:30 am, members of the Second District responded to the listed location for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene and determined that the victim displayed no signs consistent with life. The victim remained on the scene until transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

The decedent has been identified as 23 year-old Alexander Nwogu, of Blacksburg, VA.

The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for any homicide committed in the District of Columbia. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by sending a text message to 50411.

[Anonymous]

No update to this murder on the 25th of Sep:

Homicide: 5200 Block of Western Avenue, Northwest
Friday, September 25, 2020
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch are investigating a homicide that occurred on Thursday, September 24, 2020, in the 5200 block of Western Avenue, Northwest.

At approximately 7:39 pm, members of the Second District responded to the listed location for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located an adult male, unconscious and unresponsive, suffering from gunshot wounds. DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene and transported the victim to a local hospital for treatment. After all life-saving efforts failed, the victim was pronounced dead. Additionally, a second adult male victim was located in Montgomery County, MD, and transported to an area hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening gunshot wound.

The decedent has been identified as 20 year-old Tavon Brown, of Baltimore, MD.

The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for any homicide committed in the District of Columbia. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by sending a text message to 50411.

[Anonymous]

Those MPD notices are clearly not designed to share information with the public. If you look at them side by side you can see that they are pre template and cut and paste responses with minimal information to meet a legal requirement. There is no actual useful information for the public on what to be on the lookout for. Those posts are purely legal requirements. MPD has very little interest in your being involved in their investigation if they are even conducting one. Right now they are waiting for someone to call them up and either confess or say that their boyfriend did it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread ain’t about property crime and simple assaults it’s about SHOOTINGS.
Who’s responsible for all these damn guns out here?

I used to be very strongly against firearms, but the older I get, the more I see the real issue. Legal guns aren't the big problem. The vast majority of crimes aren't committed with legal firearms. Illegal guns are the big problem. Unfortunately most cities don't lock people up for long when they're caught with an illegal gun, and the recent "bail reform" is making things even worse. We need to get people off the street who are using (and demanding) illegal guns. The only way to do that is to lock them up for a long time.

I honestly think that if democrats supported enforcing the gun laws that we already have, we would be able to get the republican support to overturn the second amendment IF guns were still a big problem. But it won't happen until we start enforcing the laws we already have.

Ban all the guns, every last one of them, and this stuff won’t happen. If guns are banned, people won’t have them.

What does "ban" mean to you? Like are you planning on actually having any punishments when people ignore you? If so, what are they and why aren't you enforcing them now for people who are carrying non-registered/illegal guns? And if you just plan on arresting people and then releasing them the next day, what good do you think that will do?

It’s actually very simple. All we need is a bounty offered to the public to turn in others - people they know who are possessing guns after they are outlawed - and this ceases to be a problem.

If people could get a $5,000 reward for the arrest of someone who had a gun, they’d be falling all over themselves to report them. That’s how you fix this. Ban them all, then offer huge financial incentives to turn in noncompliant people.

The people that arrested get an automatic life sentence in prison or some kind of institutional colony, permanently removing them from society. Pick a undesirable location, somewhere out west maybe where nobody lives, and create a penal colony. Stick them all there. Let them toil doing menial physical labor or whatever, and if they try to escape, execute them. Such penal colonies have been used previously for hundreds of years as a means for countries to dispose of their undesirables who are a threat a civilized society. Read some some history.

All it takes is the national will to do it. Hopefully we’re headed that way.

[Anonymous]

I've read history. Give me an example of a few of these colonies.