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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Violently-inclined criminals are famous for obeying gun laws. That's why cities like Chicago, Detroit, Newark and Baltimore are so safe - they've got all of those anti-gun laws keeping you feeling fuzzy about being there.

It's working, right? Chicago only has an all-time high of 700 murders this year. [/quote]

Those cities are surrounded by areas without such laws. Islands like Hawaii (and Japan, among others) show what happens when it's very difficult to bring weapons into a territory. So, if anti-weapon policies could expand beyond these cities, that should deliver results.

[quote]My house was built over 100 years ago, like many rowhouses in DC. Anything built before 1970 has lead in it. Yet, my children are not super-preditors. Instead they are scholars, musicians, and athletes. 
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Is the lead paint flaking, and/or do you have the means to prevent/repair that? Many are not so fortunate. There's also the matter of environmental racism affecting the locations of pollution sources, and things like the massive hate crime that is Flint's water crisis.

We are aware of the overall Great Crime Decline, right? It seems so, since most of the focus is on the specific matter of DC youth gun crime.[/quote]

Chicago and dc will not have moats built around them. There has not been a great crime decline in the past year in these cities. Crime has risen. This post is not about dc youth crime, its about the dc youth rehabilitation act which lets repeat offenders off lightly, often to reoffend in the streets in ways that victimizes just about everyone. Please respond to that. Removing lead and guns is about causality. This thread is about what you do once the crime has been committed.
Also, this thread is not just about gun crime - one of the youths hit a postal worker on the head with a brick. Its about how they are adjudicated once they rob, rape, carjack and sometimes murder using whatever weapons they have at their disposal. The gun discussion only relates to prosecutors in a city otherwise very tough on guns pleading their gun charge down to possession of imitation guns.[/quote]

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