Good news: Bedney was caught. https://www.popville.com/2021/05/arrest-made-dc-shaw-shooting/

TBD: Will justice actually be served with meaningful prison time to both punish this perp and protect citizens from this menace?

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering where that disturbed “MYOB and STFU” poster is now? Just shameful. That guy needs to be locked up.

I'm here. I think this guy was nuts and doesn't change how I feel at all. They should have backed away and not confronted him. You can be right or you can be dead.

Thank god the world operates by a legal code and not your “street code”.

Look, they ended up shot. The world obviously does run by a street code. This is a really bizarre perspective to take.

If someone tried to run over your toddlers on an electric scooter, you would just say NOTHING?! I would definitely say "dude slow down!". This does NOT warrant being shot. He shot a freaking CHILD!!!! He could have killed both children easily.

I wouldn’t let my toddler play on a sidewalk in busy Logan Circle. The last time I checked Logan Circle is in the heart of downtown. This isn’t a leafy part of upper northwest. Nor is it a not so pedestrian trod section of leafy side street full of single family dwellings in Northeast. This isn’t a quiet culdesac in the burbs which sees almost no foot traffic other than your neighbors.

These people didn’t deserve to get hurt, but the posters who keep mentioning street smarts nailed it. DC isn’t Kansas stop acting like you think it should be and are outraged when in instances like this you find it isn’t.

I have relatives, who live in the city and a fact of life for them is that they don’t do certain things that my family takes for granted like playing on the sidewalk in front of my house. Their children are way more cautious of strangers and the like than mine are because they encounter far more strangers in a typical day than mine do.

The ones that could afford it moved to leafy upper nw single family homes and yes even they are more cautious than we are. These random crimes of “opportunity” can happen anywhere being a random victim of one is more likely to happen in a place where you have lots of different people sharing a small space.

This is why people move to the suburbs or to less trafficked parts of the city. I didn’t want to raise my family in the city because I wanted them to be more free, naive and yes safe. There is a trade off.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh. Charles Allen ward. Seriously, how do his constituents put up with him?

Given what a reprehensible person he is, there has to be someone viable to run against him next year, right?

I'm curious too! Who can take on this nutter?

Anonymous wrote:Oh. Charles Allen ward. Seriously, how do his constituents put up with him?

Given what a reprehensible person he is, there has to be someone viable to run against him next year, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard an update on how the mother and little boy are doing?

Both now in stable condition! And Anthony Bedney is still on the run.

Glad to hear that they've stabilized. Bedney will get caught. Charles Allen is an actual menace to society.

Oh. Charles Allen ward. Seriously, how do his constituents put up with him?

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard an update on how the mother and little boy are doing?

Both now in stable condition! And Anthony Bedney is still on the run.

Thank god. That poor family.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard an update on how the mother and little boy are doing?

Both now in stable condition! And Anthony Bedney is still on the run.

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone heard an update on how the mother and little boy are doing?

On the one hand, I wish that these poor peoples privacy can be respected. On the other hand, it would certainly give me substantial relief to know that they are okay.

Has anyone heard an update on how the mother and little boy are doing?

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Anonymous wrote:If guns were banned TODAY do people honestly believe it will have any impact on violence this year? Or, next year? Or ten years from now? Banning guns won’t do anything without a parallel effort to get tough on crime. The criminals know the DC laws are in their favor. That’s not good.

Prosecutors regularly plead down or dismiss DC gun charges. or don't bring them at all. It's ironic given how tough DC would like the laws to be. Why, if there is no follow through?

Because DC doesn't care about getting illegal firearms out of the hands of dangerous criminals. DC only seems to care about making legal firearms impossible to get for your everyday citizen.

If guns were banned TODAY do people honestly believe it will have any impact on violence this year? Or, next year? Or ten years from now? Banning guns won’t do anything without a parallel effort to get tough on crime. The criminals know the DC laws are in their favor. That’s not good.

Agreed. I wonder whether crazy shooter would have been so quick to pull out his weapon on a family had he been in a state like Texas or SC where the victim's husband could easily have been armed and shot back at him.

In order for people to agree to give up a right to carry arms, they have to have faith that the legal system will arrest, prosecute and incarcerate criminals. Right now we are having a societal breakdown in governmental trust on different ends of the political spectrum. Historically, the justice system has over-prosecuted and over-incarcerated AA for minor crimes while simultaneously underpolicing violent crime. When communities completely lose faith in the justice system---as arguably many inner-city low income communities have---then violence becomes endemic. On the other side of the spectrum, right wing media/Trumpism has convinced many white rightwingers that their personal safety is at risk and the anti-police agenda of the far left means that criminals won't be prosecuted---so the rightwing demographic rushes out to buy more guns. More guns on the street ---regardless of who is holding them---means that more people will be shot. Myopically left politicians like Charles Allen do not appreciate that they are contributing to this societal breakdown of trust in the justice system and increase in gun circulation just as much as right wing media.

Anonymous wrote:If guns were banned TODAY do people honestly believe it will have any impact on violence this year? Or, next year? Or ten years from now? Banning guns won’t do anything without a parallel effort to get tough on crime. The criminals know the DC laws are in their favor. That’s not good.

Prosecutors regularly plead down or dismiss DC gun charges. or don't bring them at all. It's ironic given how tough DC would like the laws to be. Why, if there is no follow through?

If guns were banned TODAY do people honestly believe it will have any impact on violence this year? Or, next year? Or ten years from now? Banning guns won’t do anything without a parallel effort to get tough on crime. The criminals know the DC laws are in their favor. That’s not good.

Yglesias gets on the "ban handguns" train