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[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]

You're seriously saying that a few homicides in your neighborhood is tolerable.

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It’s not “tolerable” in the sense that I want it to happen; obviously, I don’t want anyone being killed anywhere. But there are far more homicides in many other neighborhoods in D.C., including the one I lived in before I moved here, and nearby street crime there had nothing to do with why I moved here.

It IS “tolerable” in the sense that I am certainly going to tolerate it — we are not moving away because of a few random shootings, nor are we otherwise changing anything about our lives. It doesn’t at all make me think the neighborhood is unsafe, because the neighborhood is, in reality, quite safe.[/quote]

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