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Here we have two stories about guns....
The first story...as more law abiding citizens own and carry guns, the violent crime rate has gone down 34%.....
Meanwhile, the democrat party, they control D.C? And they have voted to reduce the sentences for violent gun felons....which is driving the gun murder rate....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...3415dc-6468-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html
More than 4,000 people have obtained gun permits from the D.C. police department to carry loaded, concealed firearms on the streets of the nation’s capital, according to data released this month.
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In the months after the court decision, the police department began approving hundreds of permits. Before the decision, there were only 123 active licenses, and D.C. police denied 77 percent of applicants for failing to provide the required “good reason.”
D.C. police have since signed off on 4,808 permits, according to data the department provided March 5 to Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety. Permits expire after two years, and there are currently 4,147 active license-holders, according to the department’s records division.
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The District’s police chief has made illegal firearms in the city a top priority for cutting crime. While overall violent crime has dropped 34 percent in D.C. since 2015, homicides fueled by illegal firearms continues to be a problem. The District finished 2019 with a decade high 166 homicides and is on a similar pace this year. Of the homicides in D.C. last year, police said 135 of them were committed with firearms.
But what is driving their gun murder rate....you know, criminals shooting other criminals?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...30d87c-c4f5-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html
Last year, the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission voted to decrease sentences for felons convicted of illegally possessing a gun in the District and to reduce the impact of prior felon-in-possession convictions on any future sentence an offender might incur. That’s right: decrease and reduce.
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D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham and U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu complained in a letter to The Post that sentencing changes will ensure that “repeat offenders who have committed gun crimes will be back on the street sooner . . . endangering our community.”
And no...the gun murder is not created by normal people with guns.....
https://wtop.com/local/2017/06/ms-13-how-a-gang-was-revitalized-in-the-dc-area/
“The vast majority of their crimes are gang-on-gang,” inspired by the need to control territory and the crime-related revenue that comes from such control, Jay Lanham, a retired assistant chief of the Prince William County police and executive director of the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force, said.
The FBI agent who spoke to WTOP agreed.
“Any transgressions against the organization, real and/or perceived, become punishable by death.”
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Gang related crime.....? Up 67%......
MS-13: How a deadly gang gained strength in the DC area | WTOP
Police: Gang-related crime up 67 percent in Montgomery County from last year
Montgomery County police looked at the data from the first six months of this year to the first half of 2017 and found violent gang-related crime is up 67 percent, gang-related robberies are up 36 percent while gang-related assaults are up 43 percent.
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Who are the gangs preying on? Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Marcus Jones said the victims of these crimes are immigrants themselves, but not always.
The first story...as more law abiding citizens own and carry guns, the violent crime rate has gone down 34%.....
Meanwhile, the democrat party, they control D.C? And they have voted to reduce the sentences for violent gun felons....which is driving the gun murder rate....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...3415dc-6468-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html
More than 4,000 people have obtained gun permits from the D.C. police department to carry loaded, concealed firearms on the streets of the nation’s capital, according to data released this month.
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In the months after the court decision, the police department began approving hundreds of permits. Before the decision, there were only 123 active licenses, and D.C. police denied 77 percent of applicants for failing to provide the required “good reason.”
D.C. police have since signed off on 4,808 permits, according to data the department provided March 5 to Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), who chairs the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety. Permits expire after two years, and there are currently 4,147 active license-holders, according to the department’s records division.
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The District’s police chief has made illegal firearms in the city a top priority for cutting crime. While overall violent crime has dropped 34 percent in D.C. since 2015, homicides fueled by illegal firearms continues to be a problem. The District finished 2019 with a decade high 166 homicides and is on a similar pace this year. Of the homicides in D.C. last year, police said 135 of them were committed with firearms.
But what is driving their gun murder rate....you know, criminals shooting other criminals?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...30d87c-c4f5-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html
Last year, the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission voted to decrease sentences for felons convicted of illegally possessing a gun in the District and to reduce the impact of prior felon-in-possession convictions on any future sentence an offender might incur. That’s right: decrease and reduce.
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D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham and U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu complained in a letter to The Post that sentencing changes will ensure that “repeat offenders who have committed gun crimes will be back on the street sooner . . . endangering our community.”
And no...the gun murder is not created by normal people with guns.....
https://wtop.com/local/2017/06/ms-13-how-a-gang-was-revitalized-in-the-dc-area/
“The vast majority of their crimes are gang-on-gang,” inspired by the need to control territory and the crime-related revenue that comes from such control, Jay Lanham, a retired assistant chief of the Prince William County police and executive director of the Northern Virginia Gang Task Force, said.
The FBI agent who spoke to WTOP agreed.
“Any transgressions against the organization, real and/or perceived, become punishable by death.”
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Gang related crime.....? Up 67%......
MS-13: How a deadly gang gained strength in the DC area | WTOP
Police: Gang-related crime up 67 percent in Montgomery County from last year
Montgomery County police looked at the data from the first six months of this year to the first half of 2017 and found violent gang-related crime is up 67 percent, gang-related robberies are up 36 percent while gang-related assaults are up 43 percent.
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Who are the gangs preying on? Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Marcus Jones said the victims of these crimes are immigrants themselves, but not always.
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