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You're not making the case for why carjacking needs to be an offense distinct from armed robbery. Kidnapping is already a crime, if it occurs in the course of a carjacking it can be charged separately. Sometimes armed robberies go horribly wrong and innocent people get killed. This is why offenses have sentencing ranges, so that a judge can look at the facts of the case and set the sentence appropriately.

The proposal isn't to say carjacking is no longer illegal, go crazy. It's to say it's no longer a criminal offense distinct from armed robbery. There's no reason to believe that sentences for carjackers would even go down, they'd just be charged under a different section of the criminal code. [/quote]

You're right, but you're missing the forest from the trees, here. The point is that drivers are angry their privileged position in the DC transportation food chain is being taken down a peg. Having carjacking being classified as an armed robbery tells DC drivers that they aren't special and should be treated the same as everyone else, whether or not they own a car.

And they hate that, more than anything. Good job, DC, for once.[/quote]

I'm sticking by my original position that middle class people can envision themselves being the victim of a carjacking, but feel that armed robbery only happens to the "wrong people."[/quote]

that is an absolutely bizarre accusation. [/quote]

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