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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been 10 deadly shootings in DC over the last week.  Two men were killed today in Brookland (NE) at 2 PM - broad daylight.

People who bought in the District never expecting a downturn are going to have some tough decisions to make. It is not safe in the District right now. [/quote]

It’s perfectly safe in most of the District, including in the neighborhoods where the shootings this thread was originally about occurred. A handful of shootings does not mean your life is in danger. (Signed, someone who lives a few blocks from the homicide location on Western and heard all the shots.)[/quote]

Yes. Not dangerous. Tell that to the VaTech grad gunned down at the Shell station. So sorry you are dead and were senselessly gunned down filling your car up, but you should have known better than doing that in the dark. So this is on you, because it is not a dangerous city. [/quote]

The fact that one person was shot and killed is a tragedy, but it hardly means the rest of us should expect the same thing to happen to us, too. Nor does it make D.C. a dangerous city. Crime is still far lower than it was as recently as 10 or 15 years ago, when many of the people who you're saying are going to have tough decisions to make probably moved here in the first place.[/quote]

Not one person. Six in the last three days. One person...totally acceptable for a random killing. Where do you draw the line though for, maybe we should be concerned?[/quote]

The PP was talking about the shooting at the gas station. Personally, I am not concerned that I’m going to be shot in D.C., though that’s not the same as not caring about other people being shot. But it’s ridiculous to think that the upper NW neighborhoods this thread is mostly discussing are anything other than extremely safe. I live down the block from the site of one of the recent murders there and have absolutely no worries about my safety. [/quote]

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