According to John's Hopkins: Firearm homicide rate in DC; 16 per 100,000 In Virginia, 4 per 100,000, with Arlington, Fairfax, and Alexandria having the lowest rate In Maryland, 8 per 100,000 with Montgomery being the lowest https://efsgv.org/state-by-state/ |
| I hope they start tracking non fatal shootings too. Many, many more of those, and they also have tragic consequences. |
| The kid who was fatally shot had a gun on him and had been shot twice before |
No collateral damage in a knife fight |
Not too mention that stabbings are only very rarely fatal. Compare that to shootings, which are nearly always fatal. |
Or white vans. |
This kid never had a chance. He had a gun on him. He had been shot on two previous occasions, as recently as February. As a twelve year old he went missing for over two days https://wjla.com/news/local/missing-12-year-old-boy-last-seen-in-dc |
And the shooter? Did he also never have a chance? |
If you seriously think Virginia's murder rate by firearm (or any other method, for that matter) is higher than DC, I don't know what to tell you. If your argument is the total number of homicides by firearm is higher in Virginia, a state with 8.5 million people, than in DC, you clearly failed 7th grade math class. |
DC is not a state; it's a city. Apples/oranges. |
If you want to compare cities, then DC has fewer gun homicides than St Louis, Baltimore, or Richmond. https://efsgv.org/learn/type-of-gun-violence/community-gun-violence/ Does that make you feel better? Is that the best that we can do? |
Seriously. The more accurate comparison would be DC vs. Virginia Beach (70K vs. 450K residents) or DC vs. Arlington/Alexandria/McLean/Annandale/Fairfax/etc (700K vs. 500K) |