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"Violent crime so far this year in the District has spiked sharply — a 40 percent increase that includes twice as many robberies at gunpoint than at this time last year.
Across the city, all police districts are reporting increases in violent crime, and all but one have had double-digit percentage increases, according to internal Metropolitan Police Department documents."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/19/violent-crime-dc-surges-2012/
Thank goodness they got rid of the guns!
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washingtontimes posted:
The crime rate is increasing this year after a downward trend — the number of reported homicides last year dropped to the lowest level in a half-century.
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This is for one month. Probably an unusually warm one, if D.C. was like the rest of the eastern seaboard.
If the trend continues at the same rate for a year, you may be on to something.
But, as mentioned, crime has been trending downward for most of the country for a decade or so.
And where I live, we have pretty strict gun control and we are always in the running for the safest community in the nation.
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So prolonged high unemployment would have nothing to do with crime rate.... gotta be the guns gotcha.
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Statistics are great!
This year, it's been predicted different rates will be 25% more accurate 12% of the time, give or take a few %.
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What's with people linking the Moonie Times lately?
Is it really becoming that hard to find conservative stupid these days?
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Thank goodness they got rid of the guns!
The Supreme Court overturned the DC Gun Ban three years ago.
Pretty epic self-pwn 
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MatrexMistwalker posted:
So prolonged high unemployment would have nothing to do with crime rate.... gotta be the guns gotcha.
This is the part that retards cannot seem to comprehend.
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Taliesihne posted:
Thank goodness they got rid of the guns!
The Supreme Court overturned the DC Gun Ban three years ago.
Pretty epic self-pwn
The actual process to get a handgun license in DC is still so onerous that it is essentially a gun ban still.
So, there ya go...
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cabbyman posted:
The actual process to get a handgun license in DC is still so onerous that it is essentially a gun ban still.
So, there ya go...
Criminals are always willing to deal with bureaucracy to get weapons?
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It was in response to the "Supreme Court struck down the ban" comment previously.
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cabbyman posted:
It was in response to the "Supreme Court struck down the ban" comment previously.
I was cheerleading.
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Taliesihne posted:
Thank goodness they got rid of the guns!
The Supreme Court overturned the DC Gun Ban three years ago.
Pretty epic self-pwn
Only in your home, and the process to get one is ridiculous.
DC news-writer has been documenting the process.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/
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cabbyman posted:
The actual process to get a handgun license in DC is still so onerous that it is essentially a gun ban still.
So, there ya go...
You don't need a license to own a handgun in DC.
You do need to register the weapon however. I read through the process, it's about as painful as registering a car in DC.
Dc's local government is horrifyingly inept at pretty much everything. But they are neutered federal bitches for the most part, so it's not a shock.
The point is they have them and they are handled as well as everything else the City does. Expecting DC to be a bastion of self-governance just because they can own them now is a painfully stupid position.
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Wow they sliced and diced a lot of numbers to make 6 weeks sound sooper extreme!
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low income areas always have higher crime rates.
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