Posted on 08/30/2015 3:16:15 AM PDT by markomalley
Despite a show of police force designed to curb a surge in violence, the nation’s capital reached a disturbing milestone Friday night when a rash of gunfire pushed this year’s homicide count to 105 — already equaling 2014’s total.
Two men died and eight people were wounded overnight, even as hundreds of police officers flooded Washington’s streets in an “all hands on deck” strategy meant to make this rattled city feel safer. Amid Twitter alerts about the spate of seven shootings, D.C. police were also posting photos of illegal guns they had seized. On Saturday, they announced that they had recovered nine weapons and made the same number of arrests.
The onslaught began just one day after Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) detailed her $15 million “Safer, Stronger DC” response to the spike in killings. Protesters angry about how the city has handled the rise in crime disrupted her announcement with chants of “Black lives matter!”
During the most serious incident Friday night, in Southeast Washington, witnesses estimated that at least 15 shots were fired.
Omoni Johnson, 26, who lived in Northeast, died about 11:45 p.m., police said. Shaheed James, 21, who lived in Clinton, Md., was taken to a hospital, where he also died. A third man, whom police have not identified, was wounded.
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Obviously those draconian restrictive gun laws in DC need some more draconian restrictive gun laws written.
My take on this argument would be that in the big cities there are too many affirmative action hires to get the proper quotas of women,blacks, gays, trannys, etc.
All I can say is: Get out of their way and the problem will take care of itself.
The single biggest predictor and driver of violent crime stats is the number of blacks a locale has.
Ft Myers is #7? My Grandparents retired there 30 yrs ago. Decent place then.
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