Surprised this happened on Fathers Day. We were all at dinner with Pops.

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Anonymous wrote:Guns are banned in dc. Even if guns were federally banned accross the country, these incidents would still occur. And even if it wasn’t a gun they would use a knife to work out their street beefs

The DC gun ban law was ruled unconstitutional years ago. You can have guns they just must be registered. NOT that criminals follow the law at all.

And Virginia has very loose gun laws.

And the astronomical crime rate in Virginia reflects that, too! There was a shooting at the Rolex store in Tyson’s mall on Saturday FFS! VA has FAR more shootings and murders than DC.

Anonymous wrote:"I get offended when people say the quality of life is declining in Ward 1. I just don't see it" -Brianne Nadeau

Yeah, shootings at 14 and U are so incredibly rare. They've never happened there before!

Sincerley,
Morons

Don’t be a jerk. You are not helping. Trumpers trumpeting from outside of DC are not helping. You come and hijack these conversations to our detriment. We are an overwhelmingly liberal open society.

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Anonymous wrote:MOCO/DC/NOVA are such ridiculously artificial terms. I don’t care where you technically live, if you are in or close in, you are affected by the violence in DC . Criminals don’t care where the gun laws are strictest. This only gets fixed by national gun control.

Parts of DC are becoming war zones again, just like they were in the 80s/90s. And people are just content to sit back and watch the show. The isn’t the mayor’s fault. Blame the GOP and their NRA blood money. I guess you’ll care when your property values plummet.

Are you saying that it's the guns from VA that are to blame for this? Since nothing has changed in VA gun ownership over the last few years, something else must have changed that caused crime in DC to rise

Rotation through the school to prison pipeline.

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Anonymous wrote:MOCO/DC/NOVA are such ridiculously artificial terms. I don’t care where you technically live, if you are in or close in, you are affected by the violence in DC . Criminals don’t care where the gun laws are strictest. This only gets fixed by national gun control.

Parts of DC are becoming war zones again, just like they were in the 80s/90s. And people are just content to sit back and watch the show. The isn’t the mayor’s fault. Blame the GOP and their NRA blood money. I guess you’ll care when your property values plummet.

Are you saying that it's the guns from VA that are to blame for this? Since nothing has changed in VA gun ownership over the last few years, something else must have changed that caused crime in DC to rise

A few things:

a HUGE number of legal gun sales when the pandemic started, many to people who have never owned guns. And they didn't always store them appropriately -- firearm theft has increased.

Ghost guns. You can go buy 80% glocks at any gun show in Virginia, no questions asked.

Social media is escalating neighborhood beefs (with school aged kids as well). What used to die down overnight now gets inflamed and stays constant over social media.

Decriminalization of marijuana. More people are smoking now, so the markets are bigger -- both legal markets and illegal markets. The illegal market has grown because it's cheaper and more potent than what is regulated. And accessible to those under 21. Almost all drug-deal related homicides involve marijuana.

And most controversial, but likely will hold up as studied, the Minneapolis effect. In jurisdictions where there has been a large push to de-police since George Floyd, violence is up.

Anonymous wrote:Guns are banned in dc. Even if guns were federally banned accross the country, these incidents would still occur. And even if it wasn’t a gun they would use a knife to work out their street beefs

Exactly. The problem isn't the weapon, it's the thugs wielding them. They lack the cognitive and social skills to solve problems without trying to kill each other. And our politicians just continue to make excuses for their behavior. Note there was just a shooting out at Tyson's that started the same way -- a bunch of idiots fighting.

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Anonymous wrote:MOCO/DC/NOVA are such ridiculously artificial terms. I don’t care where you technically live, if you are in or close in, you are affected by the violence in DC . Criminals don’t care where the gun laws are strictest. This only gets fixed by national gun control.

Parts of DC are becoming war zones again, just like they were in the 80s/90s. And people are just content to sit back and watch the show. The isn’t the mayor’s fault. Blame the GOP and their NRA blood money. I guess you’ll care when your property values plummet.

If you think national gun laws would reduce violent crime in the district, you are naive. Just go look at the “rapper” involved in the Tyson’s altercation. They glorify violence against the “ops” because they think it’s cool and some messed up perception of pride. If it wasn’t guns, they would use knives or blunt instruments to carry out the glorification of violence.

A little girl who went to my daughter’s school was killed by a stray bullet while eating dinner in her own home. That mother lost her baby. Would this have happened with a proliferation of “knife violence?”

What neighborhood? Was it in DC?

Anonymous wrote:MOCO/DC/NOVA are such ridiculously artificial terms. I don’t care where you technically live, if you are in or close in, you are affected by the violence in DC . Criminals don’t care where the gun laws are strictest. This only gets fixed by national gun control.

Parts of DC are becoming war zones again, just like they were in the 80s/90s. And people are just content to sit back and watch the show. The isn’t the mayor’s fault. Blame the GOP and their NRA blood money. I guess you’ll care when your property values plummet.

Are you saying that it's the guns from VA that are to blame for this? Since nothing has changed in VA gun ownership over the last few years, something else must have changed that caused crime in DC to rise

Anonymous wrote:Police was there, but what the police can do is very limited in the current atmosphere. Had they tried to disperse more aggressively earlier, there would have been a cry out. Had they put up metal detectors, there would have been cry out. When they arrest the perpetrators, they are released right back on the street. They are not allowed to give chase. If I were a police officer, I’d quit.

And many are. And the people who suffer from the encroaching violence are lower-income people of color.

Police was there, but what the police can do is very limited in the current atmosphere. Had they tried to disperse more aggressively earlier, there would have been a cry out. Had they put up metal detectors, there would have been cry out. When they arrest the perpetrators, they are released right back on the street. They are not allowed to give chase. If I were a police officer, I’d quit.

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Anonymous wrote:DC’s gun laws don’t help when other states don’t have gun safety laws. Chicago has the same problem with neighboring Indiana. We need FEDERAL laws.

There are twice as many guns in Virginia as in DC and Maryland. Yet, Maryland has twice the crime of Virginia. DC has 5 times the crime of Virginia. Neighboring Fairfax CO has half the crime of MoCo and 1/10 the crime of DC. It's almost as if there is some other factor causing the crime. Hmmm.... what could it be. We may never know the answer to these complex, complex questions.

It's very disingenuous for DC residents to complain about loose gun laws when they don't prosecute the criminals for any crimes. What's the point of confiscating guns when you just release the dangerous criminals and tell them violence isn't their fault?

false, no matter how much you want to be into the BS narrative

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Anonymous wrote:Blame the GOP and their NRA blood money.

News flash - We did not attend this event yesterday.

Yes you did. You just weren’t there in person. Your guns were most definitely there.

This. It all trickles down. The profits from gun manufacturing drive gun possession and violence. The money is far too tasty up high to admit the moral debt of why we have too many guns.

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Anonymous wrote:What utter garbage politicians. We need gun control and cracking down on crime.

DC has among the tightest gun control in the country. Making it tighter would not prevent criminals to break the law in obtaining them and then breaking the law in using them on the open streets.

There was a heave police presence. Having more police would not have prevented what happened.

DC routinely arrests young men for gun possession violations and then releases them right back into the community. They don’t learn a lesson and eventually they start shooting and not just brandishing their weapons.

Someone or some people know who shot and killed that poor boy. But they are not rejecting him, excluding him, turning him in. They are excusing him, condoning him, maybe celebrating him.