Mass Shooting At Neighborhood BBQ Outing

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https://fox40.com/news/breaking-20-people-shot-at-outdoor-gathering-in-southeast-d-c/

WASHINGTON (WDVM) — The Metropolitan Police Department says multiple shooters opened fire on an outdoor gathering in SE Washington, D.C. overnight. MPD confirms 21 people were shot. One of those victims has died. It happened near the 3300 block of Dubois Place SE around 1 a.m.
Police say 17-year-old Christopher Brown died at a hospital after being shot. Another 17-year-old was injured. Police say the rest of the victims are adults. An off-duty 1st District officer was also shot and is “fighting for her life,” according to Police Chief Peter Newsham.

Notice the time is 1AM. A little late for a neighborhood party. The news said there were three shooters.
 

I did a little more research. There were over 100 people at the gathering, which was not permitted. Some sort of dispute broke out and three people opened fire.
 

In 1966, my senior high school trip was to Washington D.C. and we were strictly warned that we were not allowed on city streets after dark because of the prevalence of violent crime. And my high school was in NYC! My point being, it's been dangerous for a while now.
 
Ever since I can remember, & I’m very old, there were ALWAYS bad parts of DC that people were warned to stay away from, and I don’t remember any efforts to clean them up. Just kept them sort of socially closed off. Probably another of those instances where there will be lots of moaning about violent crime,especially where youth are involved, but stone deafness if any sort of weapon control is advocated.
 
Geezerette said:
Probably another of those instances where there will be lots of moaning about violent crime,especially where youth are involved, but stone deafness if any sort of weapon control is advocated.
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DC has strict weapon control but laws don't work if they're not enforced and the sentences aren't stiff enough.

How D.C. Is Addressing An Ongoing Spike In Gun Violence

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Newsham is also concerned with the number of repeat offenders. In 2018, he said, about 50% of the people arrested for homicide had a prior gun offense. In 90% of those cases, the suspect had a criminal history with an average of 10 arrests. And in a third of those cases, the person was under pretrial or parole supervision at the time they committed the homicide.​
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"We need to treat violent offenders differently than we are right now ... I am a firm believer in that right of an individual to be innocent until they're proven guilty," he said. "By the same token, everybody else in our community has an absolute right to live without the fear of gun violence. And when you release violent gun offenders back into the community, you're impacting all of those people's right to be safe."​
 
Our entire "justice" system is heavily biased in favor of the criminals. We spend billions/yr. to "warehouse" these thugs in an environment that does little more than serve as a "school" where they can learn to "hone" their warped skills. The vast majority of them quickly become Repeat Offenders not long after being released.

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6266

Prison, IMO, should be a place where no one wants to go...rather than a "hotel" where the priority is protecting the inmates "rights".
 
Don M. said:
Our entire "justice" system is heavily biased in favor of the criminals. We spend billions/yr. to "warehouse" these thugs in an environment that does little more than serve as a "school" where they can learn to "hone" their warped skills. The vast majority of them quickly become Repeat Offenders not long after being released.

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6266

Prison, IMO, should be a place where no one wants to go...rather than a "hotel" where the priority is protecting the inmates "rights".
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Try getting a job with a prison record, no job, no money, equals repeat offender. We, as a country, need to do better in many areas; this is one of them
 
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macgeek said:
I use to like going to the inner harbor. that was many years ago.
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Baltimore's Inner Harbor used to be a great place to visit. My husband and I liked to go there for the restaurants. I wouldn't go there now, not only because of the crime in Baltimore, but also because of traffic and parking problems, and I'd probably get lost.
 
Maybe we should make it mandatory for everyone to carry guns. As it is now, only criminals and nutcase militia groups wander around armed to the teeth.

When the guns come out, everyone should be able to blast away. Keep the police away. They can just cordon off the area and let everyone inside join in the "gunfest" until they run out of ammo or people left standing.
 
DaveA said:
Maybe we should make it mandatory for everyone to carry guns. As it is now, only criminals and nutcase militia groups wander around armed to the teeth.

When the guns come out, everyone should be able to blast away. Keep the police away. They can just cordon off the area and let everyone inside join in the "gunfest" until they run out of ammo or people left standing.
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That's how it is now, isn't it?
 
All this shooting!! When will it stop?! It's sad and disheartening to keep reading these kinds of stories over and over. Imagine what our children must feel growing up in this kind of world. I didn't post it when it happened but recently a little boy was shot to death at his own superhero themed birthday party. Why?!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
All this shooting!! When will it stop?! It's sad and disheartening to keep reading these kinds of stories over and over. Imagine what our children must feel growing up in this kind of world. I didn't post it when it happened but recently a little boy was shot to death at his own superhero themed birthday party. Why?!
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Accessibility, that's why. Too many guns out there.

Guns carelessly stored or not even stored at all, hence why we hear of so many stories where innocent children end up as statistics, individuals reaching for their guns to settle scores, because that's what happens when an amendment grants anyone and everyone the right to own and carry guns.

I hear it all the time... there's "good guys with guns", and then there's "bad guys with guns", and aside from providing those like myself who reside north of the border with a good laugh, I see no differentiation between the two.

A few weeks ago I posted a video of a so called "good guy with a gun" pulling his gun on another customer at WalMart, over a petty argument over mask wearing (of all things), so I can't imagine someone scooping-up the last hotdog on a barbecue grill at a party.

When I see the likes of idiocracy on that level, that tells me not only is the gun situation in the USofA out of control, so are the people. IMO the two make for a deadly combination.

Here in Canada, you don't see people walking around freely who are armed, and while no country will ever be 100% entirely free of gun violence, cases of gun violence in our country pales in comparison to that of the States, and yes, the States trumps Canada in population, but that's just an empty, shallow argument to nowhere... an argument continually used to bolster the recognized gun violence that exists south of our border, and whenever congress looks at stepping-in to improve or tweak gun laws in the States, the good old NRA is right there to quash any and all opportunity, because heaven forbid if someone can't walk around with a sidearm strapped to their sides.

Live by the gun, die by the gun, that's what's happening in America. "MORE GUNS"... that's all we hear in the news... more sales of guns, record sales of guns, more gun ownership, more people carrying, and at the end of the day, MORE GUNS equals -- MORE people using guns, and the cases of gun violence is going to continue to spiral out of control in America.

Here in Canada, a majority of homicides that revolve guns are targeted hits. There isn't much in the way of everyday average people shooting one another. Why? Because we have laws in place in our country, laws that work.

Rewind the life and times of America some 30 or 40 years ago... I'll bet very few people carried guns, and even less owned guns, but what I see is a new generation today, a generation where nothing means nothing, and everything including human life is disposable. Here today, gone tomorrow. With that sort of mentality, it's no wonder more and more people are looking at choosing to reach for their guns to solve their problems.

The Second Amendment has made reaching for ones gun easier than ever.
 
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Phoenix said:
On March 4, 1980 my brother shot and killed his neighbors with his deer hunting rifle. Two of them we knew. We'd gone to church with them when we were kids. It nearly destroyed my loving parents. It changed everything in my life. Here's a link to my personal experience. The Worst Day of My Life.
This happened in rural Oregon.
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A very sad story.

Very sorry for all of the loved ones who were affected.
 
Aunt Marg said:
A very sad story.

Very sorry for all of the loved ones who were affected.
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Thank your for your compassion.

All of the people I know who have guns store them very carefully. The family going back generations had them so they could kill game so they would have something to eat. My dad would have literally starved in his youth without one. As for me, I cannot stand guns. I will never own one personally. Once my brother did what he did, my ex husband put his twenty rifles in gun two cabinets in our bedroom. I told him I would help him move them upstairs into other rooms, so I would not have to look at them every night before I went to bed and in the middle of the night when I got up to pee. He refused to understand.
 
Phoenix said:
Thank your for your compassion.

All of the people I know who have guns store them very carefully. The family going back generations had them so they could kill game so they would have something to eat. My dad would have literally starved in his youth without one. As for me, I cannot stand guns. I will never own one personally. Once my brother did what he did, my ex husband put his twenty rifles in gun two cabinets in our bedroom. I told him I would help him move them upstairs into other rooms, so I would not have to look at them every night before I went to bed and in the middle of the night when I got up to pee. He refused to understand.
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I'm very sorry ....It had to be devastating for you and your family....
 
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