A few shootings in Washington, DC, have made national news. The first happened during a baseball game outside of the stadium. The second occurred in a popular part of town.
D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee dropped some truth bombs about the justice system. He is tired of seeing the justice system coddling violent criminals.
However, he also said DC had too many guns. I’ll get to that in a minute.
Contee is 100% correct. Yet, he said something that bothered me (emphasis mine):
CONTEE: “But what happened out here last night, I was out here last night, some of you live here, some of you may have just been out here, but that was unacceptable. It’s unacceptable in any community. The reality is we have situations that happen like this in our city all across our city. It has been happening for a long time. Last year we had over 922 people shot in our city, last year; 198 people murdered in our city last year. This should be shocking to the conscience of every person in our city. I don’t care where you live, it has the attention that it is gotten now because it happened where it happened, because we had an incident at the national state level. But this issue — this issue that is crossing our city, there are too many guns in our city in Washington, D.C..”
Too many guns? It’s common sense the majority of the population in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas, Austin, Houston, etc., have guns. Multiple guns in fact.
Yet, the gun violence in all those cities combined seems to not even come close to the gun violence in D.C. or even Chicago.
Gee, why could that be? Could it be that guns are not the problem?
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