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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, I was told that crime is vastly overrated as an issue and doesn’t actually happen to hardly anyone. Now I’m supposed to care about crime when we relabel it “gun violence”? Then I’m supposed to care? And I’m not supposed to blame people here for it, including our politicians? I’m supposed to blame politicians somewhere else? The ones who live 1,000 miles away? So confusing. [/quote]

For the love, nobody said don't blame politicians here, but an intelligent look at how criminals source guns from gun tracing studies indicates red states fund DC crime through straw sales. Why should we have tunnel vision rather than a multi-faceted approach?

Why ONLY play whack-a-mole with local criminals when we can also work to unplug the whole game which gets its electricity from a red state? [/quote]

DP to add, I actually live in a high crime area in DC (Sometimes I feel like those posting here live in far off NW where you complain about crime, but don't actually hear the gunshots or see the cars drive off after drive bys). So I'm VERY invested in reducing DC crime, very angry at local politicians. But I don't think it's a one size fits all answer because there is an absolute problem when gun laws are so successful that blue state criminals and mexican drug cartels look to red states to obtain guns.

You can't say gun control doesn't work when local criminals source the weapons from far away. And the reality is, as someone who DOES live in an area with high gun crime, that drive by knifings are frankly far less concerning to me personally, if criminals have to resort to other weapons.[/quote]

Yet you Dems support those same cartels with your lack of border control which is  national crisis now.[/quote]

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