Reply to Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, so here's the thing about the gun argument. [b]Guns proliferate in other communities, but they don't seem to share in the violence that overtakes some cities/communities. Simply saying "GUNS" is simplistic and doesn't come close to identifying deep problems that you probably don't want to discuss anyway.[b]

Also, Australia. Yeah, an island nation that would be pretty easy to seal off from illegal weapons. The USA, not so much. Not to be cliche, but it really applies: when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. That's just how it is with porous borders and many, many guns in circulation. It's a pipedream if you think we could outlaw guns and get rid of "gun violence" at the same time. [/quote]

+1. Yep. There are plenty of communities with lots of guns, but not all of them are as violent as DC. So there is something else going on, but I think people are afraid to have that conversation. [/quote]

+2 We have plenty of guns here in NOVA, people just seem to know how to behave better.[/quote]

I lol every time one of these woke DC residents complains about evil Virginia and all the guns coming into their shining city and ruining everything for the otherwise model citizens. Ummm... you realize that guns from Virginia ALSO flow into *gasp* Virginia. And we are doing just fine. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that perhaps DC's problem is the people living in DC, not the boogieman across the potomac. [/quote]

I’m sorry you’re so suckered by the rightwing media and its billionaire owners.

You’re really trying to deflect blame instead of arguing about the truth of the issue?
You know there are more poor white people in America shooting each other with guns than poor black people, right?

Ps Canada ALSO bans handguns.  Not an island.  Canada has more rifles per capita than the US!  They just don’t have this toxic Republican/billionaire-promoted gun culture.  We could do the same.  Ban handguns tomorrow. Over time we’d get them out of people’s hands.  And many fewer people would die.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics