DC Crime Increases

Crime is on the rise in Washington D.C., our nation's beautiful capital. I can't help but wonder what would happen if people were allowed to own guns.

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.

Homicides were the only category of violent crime to decline in the first six weeks this year. As of Thursday, the city had recorded 10 homicides compared with 11 at a similar point last year.

Overall, though, incidents of violent crime — homicides, sexual assaults, robberies and assaults with deadly weapons — are rising at an alarming pace.

The biggest increase was in the 1st District, which includes Capitol Hill, where violent crime jumped by 69 percent, with 110 incidents reported compared with 65 at this point last year. The highest increase was in the 7th District, east of the Anacostia River, where 181 were reported, up 43 percent from the 127 incidents recorded at this point in 2011.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray has yet to take responsibility for the rise in crime, nor raise awareness to the people of D.C. that crime is steadily climbing - violent crimes at that.

Obviously Gray is another democrat who fails to understand how liberal policies, social or economic, are utter failures. It is because of the radical left in this country who have been hell bent on taking the rights of a person's ability to defend themselves, that we see these democrat-run cities that are out of control and out of money.

It absolutely astonishes me that there are still people who vote democrat. I know the Republicans have not been much better as of late but, democrats have PROVEN beyond a shadow of a doubt that their policies do nothing but create more damage to a city, as well as robbing individuals of their freedoms and inner spirit. The drive that once pushed us to persevere has been stolen from us by these loons on the left, as they replaced it with complacency and apathy.

When you have a culture who refused to stand up to abnormal and/or negative behaviors and even takes the time to defend the behavior by providing explanations, you will continue to not only encourage these behaviors, but approve of them as well. The result of this is our current culture, where no one seems to care about anyone but themselves. We have produced a generation of people who identify with only the current times. There is practically no interest in history, no desire to research and fact check, total lack of interest in being involved in the government's activities, and to top it all off - a belief that everyone in government is evil. To which I have to ask, what the hell did you expect to happen to the grade of politicians we have to choose from, if at the same time you lecture to everyone about accepting any and all behavior, and even going so far as to justify it?

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