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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lived in DC over a decade, worked downtown for over two decades, haven’t been back but once since March 2020, and quite honestly am apprehensive about ever setting foot downtown again.  We so need to get those guns out of circulation and out of the hands of violent young men.  But of course there is no consensus to make that happen - it is this country that has become a shithole.
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You’re free to leave. Have a nice trip. [/quote]
Why is this always the retort? Some of us love living here and aren’t evil white gentrifiers. Having concerns about public safety and uptrending violence doesn’t automatically make one racist. We expect better and want those responsible to be held accountable, even if it means having difficult conversations about race and class. Nothing changes if nothing changes.[/quote]

Yeah it's so weird. It's like half the city of DC enjoys the crime and refuses any solution. I guess that's why your guys city has become such a mess.[/quote]

I don’t enjoy the crime, but I’m not a fan of punishing BIPOC because some redneck in VA is able to buy a gun. Take guns away from that redneck who’s selling those guns, and shootings in DC will stop. [/quote]

Interstate sales of firearms other than through licensed dealers are already unlawful.

Sales to prohibited persons are already unlawful.

Straw sales/purchases are already unlawful.

Criminal misuse of firearms is already unlawful.

Why should people in the Commonwealth of Virginia have their civil rights infringed because DC simply refuses to enforce existing law and hold its criminal subculture accountable?[/quote]

But we lack sufficient means to actually enforce many of those, like interstate transport of guns, straw purchases etc because there isn't a database of who owns what guns and whether they are still in that person's possession or not.  If someone has been buying 20 guns a month for years do we have any way of telling if he actually still has all of them in his possession?  Nope.  But we should.  And if we did check we'd probably find quite a few people who illegally transferred them to others.[/quote]

“We” lack sufficient means. Unless you have a mouse in your pocket, I don’t know who “we” is. But if you’re claiming DC doesn’t have adequate resources, why are they cutting numbers?  And if you claim the feds lack adequate capacity, maybe they could detail a few of the armored and armed agents of the EPA raiding car repair shops lest somebody improve vehicle performance.

There is no will to prosecute. As for going around and searching homes in violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, among other things, I suspect a lot of people have all sorts of valuable and/or unlawful items that have never been recorded for transfer or estate tax purposes. Why stop with guns?

And there is zero empirical evidence that gun collectors and gun owners generally engage in unlawful transfers. Ever heard of the concept of probable cause?[/quote]

I don’t care about your pointless empirical evidence. I care about taking guns away from people. [/quote]

This person has either reached new heights of trolling or does not understand what "empirical" means.[/quote]

I know exactly what empirical means. And in this context, it means abused statistics and false interpretations pushed by the gun lobby to justify people being able to own instruments of murder. [/quote]

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