Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The criminal could sell his gun for $200 and buy a coat.
But with a gun, he can get as many coats as he needs for his family. Teach a man to fish...
Anonymous wrote:The criminal could sell his gun for $200 and buy a coat.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's not the wealthy committing armed robbery.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These poor Jean Valjeans are just trying to clothe their families.
Have pity for them. They need the coats more than you do. These poor people don’t have access to any help.
Yeah, sure! Blame poors for the acts of lawless.
It's not the poor either. These are crimes of opportunity.
Or crimes of malice.
I think we should be careful about throwing the word “crime” around before we analyze the full context under which each of these type of activities occur.
Many of these type of events I think we would all agree would fall into a “needs” category (i.e. people need a coat to survive but cannot afford one due to society’s exploitation). This should not be a crime.
What I think needs to be further explored is how many of these events are acts of empowerment - an oppressed individual seeking dignity and self-actualization against their oppressor. Not something I would classify as crime.
In the end I think we’d be left with a tiny fraction that could be considered truly criminal activity.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's not the wealthy committing armed robbery.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These poor Jean Valjeans are just trying to clothe their families.
Have pity for them. They need the coats more than you do. These poor people don’t have access to any help.
Yeah, sure! Blame poors for the acts of lawless.
It's not the poor either. These are crimes of opportunity.
Or crimes of malice.
I think we should be careful about throwing the word “crime” around before we analyze the full context under which each of these type of activities occur.
Many of these type of events I think we would all agree would fall into a “needs” category (i.e. people need a coat to survive but cannot afford one due to society’s exploitation). This should not be a crime.
What I think needs to be further explored is how many of these events are acts of empowerment - an oppressed individual seeking dignity and self-actualization against their oppressor. Not something I would classify as crime.
In the end I think we’d be left with a tiny fraction that could be considered truly criminal activity.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's not the wealthy committing armed robbery.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These poor Jean Valjeans are just trying to clothe their families.
Have pity for them. They need the coats more than you do. These poor people don’t have access to any help.
Yeah, sure! Blame poors for the acts of lawless.
It's not the poor either. These are crimes of opportunity.
Or crimes of malice.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What is the rationale behind a person in their teens and early 20s walking around with thousands of dollars of branded clothing? Especially after at least one university (GWU) told them they were at risk and to stop wearing them. It can’t be status; it’s not their money.
Do you think hong Kong has this problem
who are leftists.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Leftists.Anonymous wrote:How did DC get cleaned up in the past , what is the current barrier to getting crime down
No, lack of common sense among DC politicians.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These poor Jean Valjeans are just trying to clothe their families.
Have pity for them. They need the coats more than you do. These poor people don’t have access to any help.
Yeah the girls walking in Georgetown and the guys driving a car need lots of help. Sure.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Remember, it's all our fault! We shouldn't wear nice things, we shouldn't drive cars, we should have everything tracked by airtags so these criminals can have their freedom from oppression and jail.
It's not the victim's fault obviously, and those thugs need to go to jail.
But here's the reality, when you wear or drive expensive cars in an area that is seeing an uptick in carjackings and thefts.. the chances of you becoming a victim increases.
I mean.. an FBI agent got carjacked.
Anonymous wrote:Leftists.Anonymous wrote:How did DC get cleaned up in the past , what is the current barrier to getting crime down
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's not the wealthy committing armed robbery.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These poor Jean Valjeans are just trying to clothe their families.
Have pity for them. They need the coats more than you do. These poor people don’t have access to any help.
Yeah, sure! Blame poors for the acts of lawless.
It's not the poor either. These are crimes of opportunity.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These poor Jean Valjeans are just trying to clothe their families.
Have pity for them. They need the coats more than you do. These poor people don’t have access to any help.
They really should have a program for that!
The Council’s Coddle Criminals Caucus has their Hug a Thug program.
You snark, but they likely do need a hug from traumatized childhoods.