Eleven people shot on D.C. street corner overnight

[IDemo]

Source: Washington Post

A drive-by shooting early Monday on a D.C. street corner that has frequently been touched by violence left 11 people wounded, one of them seriously, police said.

Gunmen in two cars opened fire about 2:45 a.m. on a crowd of people outside Tyler House, an eight-story, subsidized residential building on the south side of New York Avenue at North Capitol Street.

The wounded — the youngest of whom was 17 — were struck mostly in the arms and legs, D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said. Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham said the seriously injured victim was wounded in the back. None of the injuries are considered life-threatening.

Lanier said detectives believe that one of the vehicles involved in the shooting may have been a dark-colored BMW, and the other a may have been a light gray or silver sedan.



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[Plucketeer]

1. Hmmmmmmm.

How would this have been done without a gun? How many more would be perforated if some in that crowd had been "packin'"?

[FarCenter]

2. A crowd on the street at 2:45 am?

[Remmah2]

3. Sounds like a gang problem to me.

[Blue_Tires]

10. The video shows them hanging out around the entrance/courtyard(?) of their building...

[L0oniX]

4. Hmmm ...criminals had guns? ...and the cops didn't protect the crowd?

How do you stop criminals from getting guns? Bans guns? Search every square foot of the US for guns? Go against free market capitalism and seize the US gun manufactures companies? Make more laws? (which are only for the little people) Make criminals obey the law? Anyone got a reasonable answer or solution? I don't see a solution other than doing what Australia or the UK has done. The strong arm criminals will rule the streets? My solution for that is ...get a doberman.

[alp227]

7. According to the NRA, all 11 people should've fired back. That would've been safer RIGHT? n/t

[L0oniX]

8. Is that an NRA quote? ...or your reframe? n/t

[alp227]

9. I should've included a sarcasm icon n/t

[askeptic]

11. ...and according to you, I guess, gun laws should have prevented this

[harmonicon]

12. There are many things that could be done short of anything that could be seen as a violation...

of the second amendment. First and foremost would be the lifting of laws put in place for the soul purpose of shielding the manufacturers and sellers of killing devices from civil and criminal prosecution when their products are used as designed. Second would be a very clear trail of registration from manufacture to use for both guns and ammunition. If everyone who is actually responsible for gun violence were held accountable for that gun violence, I think it would drop drastically.

Of course this is just a supposition on my part, because it's never been tried, but it wouldn't hurt to try, would it?

[olddots]

5. 11 wounded

Gun shot wounds aren't pretty,life isn't a movie where next scene you look all pretty again.
Are gun shot wounds going to be the next tattoos to brag about ?

[slackmaster]

6. Senseless gang violence, basically poor-on-poor. I hope they catch the culprit or culprits.

[Macoy51]

13. DC Needs to be a Gun Free Zone

They need to pass a law banning guns from DC. O wait, only the rich and powerful are allowed guns in DC, so, how could this have happened?



Macoy

[warrant46]

14. LOL-- NT