DAVID NG – 6 Oct 2023 – Breitbart news

My cmnt: I have quite a few of these postings on democrat-controlled cities inundated with violent crime and murder. Just search the category “democrat gun violence” for more. My point in posting these columns from Breitbart is too remind my readers just how bad it is under democrat rule and how gun control laws don’t work. Gun control laws only prevent law abiding citizens from easily protecting themselves while the criminals will always have access to guns.

My cmnt: Lib-Left democrats and other meatheads act as if no one shot, robbed or murdered anyone in all the history of man until guns were invented. It is patently absurd to believe such things but democrats believe all kinds of absurd things and vote to implement them with the force of law. Equally, obviously stupid is the democrat idea of putting up signs in certain areas declaring it illegal to carry a handgun onto the premises. Yeah, right. As if a criminal is going to see this sign (assuming he can even read) and go, “O, damn. I was going to rob this place and shoot some people but this sign stops me. Guess I’ll have to go somewhere else with no sign.”

Washington, DC, is seeing a sharp surge in murders in 2023, with homicides up 38 percent so far this year compared to the same point last year, according to Metropolitan Police. The nation’s capital has also seen carjackings skyrocket 110 percent, with total violent crime up 38 percent.

The troubling statistics come as Democrat-controlled D.C. continues to be inundated with illegal aliens, pushing the city’s already strained resources to a catastrophic breaking point.

Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX) was carjacked at gunpoint in the nation’s capital on Monday evening in the Navy Yard area. The incident took place outside of Cuellar’s apartment building where he and many other members of Congress live.

Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), who supported violent Black Lives Matter rioters in 2020, is scrambling to react to the wave of deadly mayhem that has city residents feeling frightened and helpless.

“We’re focused on how to drive that [violent crime] down and hold the people accountable who are doing it,” she recently told journalists, according to a Fox 5 report.

D.C. residents aren’t buying it.

Many people who live in areas most impacted by violent crime don’t feel the work the city has done so far is helping, according to a WTOP report.

When asked if she’s seen improvement, Trace Cobb, who lives in the crime-ridden Anacostia neighborhood, told the radio station, “Absolutely not.”

She pointed out the spot where a recent shooting occurred and said she has feared for her life several times. “There have been several times I’ve had to dive on the ground,” she said.

Another D.C. resident told the radio station: “I don’t want to say there’s no hope but, man, it’s so hard.”

Due to the city’s sanctuary status, frightened citizens are being pushed aside in favor of illegal aliens, who are receiving shelter, food, healthcare, and other taxpayer-funded benefits.

Mayor Bowser spent years touting the city’s sanctuary status as something that would lift the quality of life for all residents. Instead, the nation’s capital is drowning in murder and illegal immigration.

D.C. voters overwhelmingly reelected Bowser to a third term in 2022.

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