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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting to see the comments to this thread.  It’s amazing how many people hate the District an seem to be gloating over its decline.  It should be the cultural capital of the region. But Americans hate their cities and love their crappy suburbs.[/quote]
Americans don't hate cities. We just like being safe from carjacking by 12 year olds with guns.[/quote]

This can't be said enough. Americans who hate "cities" really just hate the crime, and graffiti and weed smoke, and so forth. None of those things are inherent in a city. [/quote]

This. In Italy, there were 499 homicides from January 2023 to July 2024, a year and a half. This was in the whole country of over 50 million people. Rome has more than 2 million people. Milan has more than 1 million. Naples has close to 1 million.

There were 274 murders in DC in 2023. DC has 700,000 people. [/quote]

So DC is better at it. Isn’t that a good thing? [/quote]

And that’s comparing DC to a country where the mafia originated. Switzerland has lax gun laws, 8.8 million people, and had 53 murders in 2023.[/quote]

The home of MS-13, El Salvador, had 214 murders in 2023 and has 6.6 million people.

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-homicides-gangs-bukele-69384a8705267eaddd18dcd28a53465b#

[quote]In 2015, El Salvador had 6,656 homicides, making it one of the world’s deadliest countries. In 2023, there were 214 homicides.[/quote]

Being tough on crime leads to less murders. Shocking.

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MS-13 is based in Virginia. [/quote]

According to Wikipedia, MS-13 started in LA. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13

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