Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 22:36     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:"You don't live here anymore, Karen. You opinion doesn't matter. Full stop."

I thought we agreed that the term "Karen" is both misogynist and racist. Anywho, this story obviously hits a little close to home for some, who are on the defensive. Too bad, so sad. You're making your choice to continue living in DC. You don't even know how much it's wearing on you. When you finally leave, you'll realize the toll it has taken.


Not to totally sidetrack this already sidetracked thread, but: White people calling each other "Karen" is about the farthest possible thing from racist as you can find.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 22:25     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guys, the violent crime rate in DC is in no way comparable to that in most suburbs. That’s reality. Stop pretending DC is as safe as the suburbs. Can you not handle the truth?


We live here and live with it. What the F DO YOU CARE?


Because I don’t want rampant violent crime where I live and I think four year olds getting shot is unacceptable. It’s weird to me that you don’t care. Have some standards for gods sake.


We all agree that violent crime is bad and 4-year-olds getting shot is an unacceptable tragedy. What the rest of us are wondering is why you seem to insist that means we all have to make the same choice in response to it that you did, i.e., leave town. You didn't want to live here anymore, we get it. What does it matter to you if we do?
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 21:53     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guys, the violent crime rate in DC is in no way comparable to that in most suburbs. That’s reality. Stop pretending DC is as safe as the suburbs. Can you not handle the truth?


We live here and live with it. What the F DO YOU CARE?


Because I don’t want rampant violent crime where I live and I think four year olds getting shot is unacceptable. It’s weird to me that you don’t care. Have some standards for gods sake.


Then don't push guns into the city.


This is not a gun problem.


It is in a city or place whete many people have demonstrated that they are not capable of restraining themselves from using them to commit crimes.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 21:44     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

"You don't live here anymore, Karen. You opinion doesn't matter. Full stop."

I thought we agreed that the term "Karen" is both misogynist and racist. Anywho, this story obviously hits a little close to home for some, who are on the defensive. Too bad, so sad. You're making your choice to continue living in DC. You don't even know how much it's wearing on you. When you finally leave, you'll realize the toll it has taken.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 21:35     Subject: Re:Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LOL Bye OP. When are you going to start a thread on the mass shooting in your suburbs?


Even with mass shootings, the suburbs are categorically safer. Even if we had 10x the number of school shootings, all in the suburbs. They'd still be safer.


Then you should definitely stay there
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 21:22     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

This is a gun problem and it’s a crime problem. I livevin the area. what a tragedy. I walked around the area and there were lots of police on bikes and cars patrolling. But it’s too little too late. Heart goes out to this poor family.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 21:20     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the ones who bailed on DC a couple months ago with crime escalating and other quality of life issues going down the tubes. The story of the mother and child being shot in front of their home by a stranger should shake some people up- it's horrifying. They were shot in front of their husband/dad and other sibling, all over a scooter being parked on the block by an obviously really bad guy. It's time to leave DC. Take your tax dollars and join me away from the city. The council, the mayor, no one else will listen or do anything about the problems. Even if they catch the guy who shot this family, good luck seeing actual justice done. It'll be like the Uber Eats driver who was killed, and the perps got, what, a 2-4 years? Vote with your feet!!


You don't live here anymore, Karen. You opinion doesn't matter. Full stop.


Actually, everyone in our country is entitled to have an opinion about what goes on in our nation's capital city.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 20:04     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Guys, the violent crime rate in DC is in no way comparable to that in most suburbs. That’s reality. Stop pretending DC is as safe as the suburbs. Can you not handle the truth?


We live here and live with it. What the F DO YOU CARE?


Because I don’t want rampant violent crime where I live and I think four year olds getting shot is unacceptable. It’s weird to me that you don’t care. Have some standards for gods sake.


Then don't push guns into the city.


This is not a gun problem.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 20:00     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:I'm one of the ones who bailed on DC a couple months ago with crime escalating and other quality of life issues going down the tubes. The story of the mother and child being shot in front of their home by a stranger should shake some people up- it's horrifying. They were shot in front of their husband/dad and other sibling, all over a scooter being parked on the block by an obviously really bad guy. It's time to leave DC. Take your tax dollars and join me away from the city. The council, the mayor, no one else will listen or do anything about the problems. Even if they catch the guy who shot this family, good luck seeing actual justice done. It'll be like the Uber Eats driver who was killed, and the perps got, what, a 2-4 years? Vote with your feet!!


You don't live here anymore, Karen. You opinion doesn't matter. Full stop.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 19:56     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:Don't worry. Mayor is on it:

“We’re devastated,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who attended the briefing. “We have to say to the community, ‘we’re going to stand against gun violence.’ ”


Not good enough. A gun didn't fly around on its own and do this, a worthless urban parasite with free will *chose* to commit this horrible outrage.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 18:19     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don't worry. Mayor is on it:

“We’re devastated,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who attended the briefing. “We have to say to the community, ‘we’re going to stand against gun violence.’ ”


I'm going to say it again:

Antonin Scalia and the Roberts court did this to DC. They made up an individual right to own guns. They did this to help their donors and gain political advantage in red areas outside DC.

It is disgusting and it is despicable. Without the Roberts court, DC would ban guns, and likely VA and MD gun ownership would also be curtailed, greatly decreasing the supply of handguns in DC.

It is time to ban handguns in America.


Oh, was the gun used in the crime legal and registered?


The real question is not this impoverished and lame hairsplitting, but instead,

Is DC awash in guns because of the Roberts Court and Scalia and the Republican Party?

And the answer is unquestionably yes. Republicans have blood on their hands. How can there be any question?

The whole world looks at Republicans making these stupid arguments about legal and not and whether guns kill people and just laughs at their stupidity.

Ban handguns — like Canada does — and this shooting wouldn’t have happened. Scalia enabled this. Roberts enabled this. All for votes for tax cuts for the rich.

Gun violence is inherently political because it is possible only due to political decisions. To the troll who will come and say “don’t politicize this” — You can’t separate shootings from politics.


That's not the real question LOL. Ban handguns would need to be national and we would need seizures, draconian punishment, to crazily enforce borders / smuggling and printing your own at this point.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 17:01     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Canada essentially bans handguns. (Except at ranges, tightly controlled)
Australia essentially bans handguns.
Russia — darling of far right Republicans — essentially bans handguns.

The United States could ban handguns too.

But we don’t, because Charles Koch and his friends spend billions to push pro-gun, pro-death laws, because guns get votes for tax cuts that enrich Charles Koch.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 16:54     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don't worry. Mayor is on it:

“We’re devastated,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who attended the briefing. “We have to say to the community, ‘we’re going to stand against gun violence.’ ”


I'm going to say it again:

Antonin Scalia and the Roberts court did this to DC. They made up an individual right to own guns. They did this to help their donors and gain political advantage in red areas outside DC.

It is disgusting and it is despicable. Without the Roberts court, DC would ban guns, and likely VA and MD gun ownership would also be curtailed, greatly decreasing the supply of handguns in DC.

It is time to ban handguns in America.


Oh, was the gun used in the crime legal and registered?


The real question is not this impoverished and lame hairsplitting, but instead,

Is DC awash in guns because of the Roberts Court and Scalia and the Republican Party?

And the answer is unquestionably yes. Republicans have blood on their hands. How can there be any question?

The whole world looks at Republicans making these stupid arguments about legal and not and whether guns kill people and just laughs at their stupidity.

Ban handguns — like Canada does — and this shooting wouldn’t have happened. Scalia enabled this. Roberts enabled this. All for votes for tax cuts for the rich.

Gun violence is inherently political because it is possible only due to political decisions. To the troll who will come and say “don’t politicize this” — You can’t separate shootings from politics.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 16:48     Subject: Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don't worry. Mayor is on it:

“We’re devastated,” said D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who attended the briefing. “We have to say to the community, ‘we’re going to stand against gun violence.’ ”


I'm going to say it again:

Antonin Scalia and the Roberts court did this to DC. They made up an individual right to own guns. They did this to help their donors and gain political advantage in red areas outside DC.

It is disgusting and it is despicable. Without the Roberts court, DC would ban guns, and likely VA and MD gun ownership would also be curtailed, greatly decreasing the supply of handguns in DC.

It is time to ban handguns in America.


Oh, was the gun used in the crime legal and registered?
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2021 16:47     Subject: Re:Mother and Child Shot at P and 10th NW

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:LOL Bye OP. When are you going to start a thread on the mass shooting in your suburbs?


Damn you really don't care about the victims do you? Is it because they aren't a couple of white girls?


You mean "Is it because they are a white mother and child?"

I am tired of the violent, often drug-addled, mentally ill people wandering the streets of DC.


They are a powerful lobby because all the limo liberals shriek about involuntary commitment and treatment and would rather hand out 'care kits'.