Interpreter Who Served with US Forces in Afghanistan, Fled Taliban Takeover, Shot Dead Driving Lyft in DC

[2aguy]

Why are all Democrat controlled areas such cesspits of violence and decay?
A: The policies of Democrats.
Duh.

Interpreter who served with US forces in Afghanistan, fled Taliban takeover is shot dead driving Lyft in DC

“You just don’t have words to describe how you feel about someone who had given so much to his country, not as a citizen, but then comes here and experiences some of the worst behavior …

nypost.com

living in a democrat city is just nuts...

 

[2aguy]

As I`ve already suggested, read a fucking book or two and learn something. We`re not your teachers. Meanwhile stay out of the murderous Red states.

Third Way

www.thirdway.org

That lie....again........?

Red states that have blue cities in them....you assholes always forget that.....no, you don't forget...you lie....

While state legislatures enact the criminal penalties for different offenses, local governments set the policies that determine whether someone is arrested and convicted. Cities and counties set spending on police and sheriff departments and policing policies. Most states have local elections for district attorneys and trial court judges. In the last few years, many Democrat district attorneys have been accused of going soft on violent criminals. They may also not request bond for criminals. Judges have also released large numbers of inmates from many local jails over the last few years.
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While the murder rates in Trump counties in the states Trump won are only slightly higher than those in Trump counties in states Biden won, the Biden counties in Trump states had an 83% higher murder than in Biden states. This may say more about law enforcement and demographics than it does about state gun control laws.
For example, African Americans commit half the murders in the United States, though they comprise only 13.6% of the population. The counties that Biden won have almost four times the percentage of black voters. That gap is even larger in the counties in the states that Trump carried than the states that Biden carried.
Breaking out large counties with over 100,000 people, which is where 88% of murders in the U.S. occur, shows a similar, though even more extreme, difference. The murder rate data for counties that Biden won is much higher than for those that Trump won.
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The difference between Biden and Trump states is again driven by the Biden counties in the Republican states having much worse murder rates than those in the Democrat states and those are also the counties with the largest black populations.


The murder rates are much higher for Democrat counties both in states that voted for Biden and states that voted for Trump, but it is the high murder rates in Democrat counties that are causing the higher murder rates in Republican states in 2020.


The Biden counties in Republican states averaged a murder rate of almost eight per 100,000 people, up from 4.4 in Democrat states. The Trump counties had only slightly higher murder rates in the Republican states.


Murder, They Spun: Selective Stats Leave Suspicious Fingerprints All Over the Crime Debate
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[2aguy]

As I`ve already suggested, read a fucking book or two and learn something. We`re not your teachers. Meanwhile stay out of the murderous Red states.

Third Way

www.thirdway.org

And more on this lie.....

Red states blue cities...

One problem with that: In most of these red states, the high murder rates are driven by the lethal violence in their blue cities.

Take Missouri. Yes, it voted for Trump. But it is also home to two of the most dangerous U.S. cities -- St. Louis and Kansas City -- both of which are run by Democrats. Earlier this year, CBS News did an analysis of the "deadliest U.S. cities" using the latest FBI and other crime data. In 2019, it found, St. Louis had the highest murder rate in the nation, with 64.54 murders per 100,000 residents. Kansas City, meanwhile, had the eighth-highest murder rate, with 29.88 murders per 100,000. According to the FBI, the state had about 520 murders in major metropolitan areas that year, 20 in cities outside metropolitan areas, and 28 in nonmetropolitan counties. So, the vast majority of Missouri's homicides took place in its Democrat-run cities.
The same is true for Louisiana, which has two of the most lethal Democratic-run cities in the country: Baton Rouge, which in 2019 had the sixth-highest murder rate in the nation with 31.72 murders per 100,000 residents, and New Orleans, which had the seventh-highest rate with 30.67 murders per 100,000. Without those cities, the state's murder rate would significantly drop.
That's not all. Tennessee's homicide rate was driven up by Democratic-run Memphis, which ranked ninth in the country with 29.21 homicides per 100,000 residents. Also powering the state's murder rate: then-Democratic-led Chattanooga (No. 29) with 18.15 murders per 100,000 in 2019 (note: the city elected an independent in 2021); Democratic-run Nashville (No. 59) with 12.08 per 100,000; and Democratic-run Knoxville (No. 62) with 11.66 per 100,000.
The same goes for other red states: In Alabama, Democratic-run Birmingham, which ranked third with 50.62 murders per 100,000 citizens, drove up the state murder rate, as did Democratic-run Tuscaloosa (No. 21) with 20.77 per 100,000. Kentucky's murder rate was run up by its largest city, Democratic-run Louisville, which had the 46th-highest murder rate in 2019, with 13.92 homicides per 100,000 residents. Arkansas's rate was driven up by Democratic-run Little Rock, the capital and largest city, which had the 24th-highest murder rate with 19.15 homicides per 100,000 residents. Mississippi's was driven up by the homicides in its Democratic-run capital Jackson, which had a murder rate of 46.5 per 100,000 in 2019.

See a pattern here?
Third Way also claims that 3 of the 5 states with the largest increase in murder rate between 2019 and 2021 were "decidedly rural" red states -- "Trump-voting Wyoming at 91.7%, South Dakota at 69%, and Nebraska at 59.1%." Sounds terrible. Here's what they left out: According to FBI data, Wyoming had a grand total of 13 murders in 2019, or 2.2 per 100,000 residents, while South Dakota had 17 and Nebraska had 45. So even if Wyoming's murder rate nearly doubled, it still saw fewer than 30 murders in 2021. What else are these red states missing besides large murder numbers? Large, crime-ridden, Democratic-run cities.
Third Way does not provide city-by-city data for 2020 in its report, perhaps because this would undermine its red state murder narrative. But the Manhattan Institute's Rafael Mangual gathered data on the 2020 murder rates in the 50 largest U.S. cities -- 34 of which had Democratic mayors, while 14 were led by Republicans (two were led by independents). "The homicide rate in the blue cities was 15.8 per 100,000, compared to 9.4 per 100,000 in the red cities," he found.
And in a May report, his Manhattan Institute colleagues Robert VerBruggen and Christos Makridis examined the growth in the homicide rate per capita in the largest U.S. counties between 2019 and 2020 -- and then compared the rates in GOP-leaning and Democratic-leaning counties. They found that "counties with higher shares of GOP voters have a much lower homicide death rate and a lower number of deaths in 2020" and "also a lower growth in homicide rates."



The 'Red State Murder Problem'? That's Just A Democratic-Driven Myth.


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The Heritage authors' data analysis revealed that, if the homicide rates of Democrat-run cities and counties in Republican-led states are subtracted, the overall homicide rates for those states are dramatically reduced.
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As noted earlier, however, most crime is hyperlocalized, so the funda- mental flaw with the study and the reason it does not deserve any serious consideration is that the “murder rate” in each state is largely a function of the large number of murders in a state’s biggest city or cities.21 A super majority of those cities, even in otherwise red states, are deep blue and runby left-wing ideologues.
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When you remove the crime-infested, homicide-riddled cities from the state murder rate featured in the Third Way study, you dramatically lower the murder rate for that state, upending their conclusions and exposing the piece for what it really is: a straightforward attempt at political projection dressed up as a “study.”

Said another way, Kessler and Murdock did their level best as political operatives to blame their political opponents for the very thing—rising crime—that leftist policies at the city and county levels have caused.


While a state’s murder rate is perhaps politically interesting, a more accurate reflection of what is actually happening on the ground is gained by reviewing localized murder rates, such as murder rates in a city or county. What does this review show?

Table 1 lists the 30 cities with the highest murder rates in the United States as of June 30, 2022.
Not surprisingly, of those 30 cities, 27 have Democratic mayors, the exceptions being Lexington and Jacksonville, which have Republican mayors, and Las Vegas, whose mayor is an Independent. And within those 30 cities there are at least 14 Soros-backed or Soros-inspired rogue prosecutors. Those Soros bought-and-paid-for or inspired rogue prosecutors include:

Study debunks ‘red state murder’ claim from Hillary Clinton, Democrats
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In February 2022, CBS News published a report about cities with the highest homicide rate, "Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities." Of the top 10 deadliest cities in the country, all of them are cities with Democratic mayors. Moreover, of the 65 cities on this list with the highest murder rates, the overwhelming majority had Democratic mayors. And, to quote Clinton, "that's just a fact."
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On Nov. 4, the Heritage Foundation released a study showing that "high-crime counties are governed largely by Democrats." It revealed that of the 30 cities with the highest murder rates in the country, 27 have Democratic mayors. Furthermore, of those 27 cities, nearly half (14) have radical left-wing prosecutors funded or inspired by affluent billionaire and leftist political activist George Soros and the Open Society Foundation.
"The high murder rate is almost exclusively cabined in cities run by Democrats and with Democrat district attorneys, many of whom are Soros bought-and-paid-for rogue prosecutors or inspired by Soros, groups like the egregiously misnamed Fair and Just Prosecution and other battering rams of the movement," the authors of the study stated.

MSN
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From poster, Toobfreak.

I chose 58 cities as that was the largest number I could fit on a page. I then went through each city one by one to look up the major of every city. Aside from the fact that you can forget finding any pattern of cities in "red" states being the most with the highest crime as the idiot Marc tries to claim, but I went down the list marking all the mayors of the highest crimes cities in America in BRIGHT RED who were DEMOCRATS.


Look at what I found:

Every city above in red is RUN BY A DEMOCRAT!

Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities


Also.....

The No. 1 state on Third Way’s list is Mississippi. Sure enough, the statewide vote in the 2020 election was for Trump. But within the state, Hinds County residents voted for Joe Biden, 3 to 1. Mississippi’s biggest city, Jackson, is in Hinds County. You know where this is going.
Reporting on Jackson last year, CNN declared it “one of the deadliest U.S. cities.”

The mayor of Jackson is Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat. The district attorney is Jody Owens, a Democrat.
No. 2 on the list is Louisiana. Trump won that state, too. But on the more local level, he lost Orleans, the parish that contains New Orleans, the state’s most populous city. Residents there went for Biden almost 8 to 1.
“New Orleans had the highest homicide rate of any major city so far this year, with about 41 homicides per 100,000 residents.”— The Wall Street Journal, Sep. 16, 2022
The mayor of New Orleans is LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat. The district attorney is Jason Williams, also a Democrat.
No. 3 on the list is Kentucky, another red state that voted to elect Trump. But Kentucky’s biggest city Louisville is in Jefferson County and 60 percent of those voters supported Biden.
This is from Kentucky-based think tank Pegasus Institute in August: “In the last decade, the city of Louisville has seen unprecedented increases in shootings and homicides. 2020 became Louisville’s deadliest year on record, and 2021 have proven to continue that trend.” The organization reported last year that Louisville’s homicide rate was competing with the likes of Chicago and Philadelphia.
The mayor of Louisville is Greg Fischer, a Democrat. The district attorney is Thomas B. Wine. He is also a Democrat.
Next is Alabama at No. 4, another 2020 red state. But Biden won the most votes in the most populous county, also called Jefferson. He won 56 percent to Trump’s 43. Within Jefferson is the city of Birmingham, which has the third-highest murder ratein all of the U.S.
The mayor of Birmingham is Randall Woodfin. He’s a Democrat, just like the district attorney, Danny Carr.
In slot No. 5 is Missouri. Again, a Trump state. And again, with the county containing its biggest city, St. Louis, going for Biden, 61 percent to Trump’s 37. St. Louis has the fourth-highest murder rate in the country.
Mayor: Tishaura Jones, Democrat.
County prosecuting attorney: Wesley Bell, same.
No. 6 is South Carolina. Trump won that state, but Charleston County, with the city of North Charleston, went for Biden with 56 percent of the vote. North Charleston has the highest murder rate in the state.
Finally, here we have a city with a mayor, Keith Summey, from the Republican Party. The county solicitor — Charleston does not have a district attorney — is Scarlett Wilson, also a Republican.
Not that we’re keeping score, but that brings the number on this list of Republicans who might feasibly be held accountable for raging crime in their cities to a grand total of two. For Democrats, it’s so far 10.
The next two states on Third Way’s report, New Mexico and Georgia, went blue in 2020, so we’ll skip those.
No. 9 is Arkansas, which was red. But again, Pulaski County, with the state’s biggest city of Little Rock, went blue with 60 percent of voters choosing Biden. That city reportedly has one of the highest violent crime rates in the state. The mayor of Little Rock is Frank Scott, a Democrat. The county prosecutor, Larry Jegley, is a Democrat as well.
Lastly, at No. 10, is Tennessee. Another red state with a major blue county that went for Biden. That county here would be Shelby, with 64 percent of the vote going to the president. In Shelby is the city of Memphis, which, according to The New York Times, “is often ranked among the nation’s most violent cities.”
The mayor of Memphis is Jim Strickland, a Democrat. Steve Mulroy, a Democrat, is the recently-elected district attorney.
To recap, of the eight red states listed in Third Way’s report as being among the top 10 with the highest murder rate, the cities where all that murder is happening are run almost exclusively by Democrats. All but one had a Democrat mayor. And all but one had a Democrat responsible for pursuing criminal prosecutions.


The Left's Funny New Lie: It's The 'Red States' With More Crime!

 

[2aguy]

Why would I when everything there is closed? For the record, I`m not a member of the party that helps criminals and crazy people acquire guns.

Yes....you are.....democrat party prosecutors, judges and politicians keep releasing the violent criminals who get illegal guns easily...because they are criminals who don't care about your gun control laws....you guys keep releasing them on no cash bail, with shorter sentences, and your democrat politicians keep lowering the sentences for actual gun criminals while punishing normal gun owners...

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Why is every Democrat controlled area a violent shithole?

You answered your own question.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

More proof that democrats are the greatest threat to this country.

 

[August West]

Yes....you are.....democrat party prosecutors, judges and politicians keep releasing the violent criminals who get illegal guns easily...because they are criminals who don't care about your gun control laws....you guys keep releasing them on no cash bail, with shorter sentences, and your democrat politicians keep lowering the sentences for actual gun criminals while punishing normal gun owners...

They don`t release prisoners in red states? Think, son. How many of these people never would have been in jail if they didn`t have a gun? Which party is it that blocks absolutely every proposal of the most innocuous of gun control proposals?
More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

 

[Weatherman2020]

They don`t release prisoners in red states? Think, son. How many of these people never would have been in jail if they didn`t have a gun? Which party is it that blocks absolutely every proposal of the most innocuous of gun control proposals?
More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

California alone recently released over a hundred thousand violent felons from prison early so they could scream for more gun grabbing.

 

[2aguy]

They don`t release prisoners in red states? Think, son. How many of these people never would have been in jail if they didn`t have a gun? Which party is it that blocks absolutely every proposal of the most innocuous of gun control proposals?
More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

And you wont name those "inocuous" proposals because every time you do we show how stupid they are and how you only want them so you can target law abiding gun owners

 

[2aguy]

They don`t release prisoners in red states? Think, son. How many of these people never would have been in jail if they didn`t have a gun? Which party is it that blocks absolutely every proposal of the most innocuous of gun control proposals?
More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

Then you would have to explain these facts that show you don't know what you are talking about.....

Over 27 years, from 1993 to the year 2015, we went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 19.4 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2019 (in 2020 that number is 21.52 million)...guess what happened...

New Concealed Carry Report For 2020: 19.48 Million Permit Holders, 820,000 More Than Last Year despite many states shutting down issuing permits because of the Coronavirus - Crime Prevention Research Center


-- gun murder down 49%

--gun crime down 75%

--violent crime down 72%

Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
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The gun murder and gun suicide rates in the U.S. both remain below their peak levels. There were 6.2 gun murders per 100,000 people in 2020, below the rate of 7.2 recorded in 1974.


What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

Paper...why crime declined in the 90s

https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf
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Over the past few decades, the number of guns in America has increased massively, so much so that there are now more guns than people in the United States. Yet federal crime statistics show that firearm homicides dropped about 40 percent between 1993 and 2018, from 7 per 100,000 people to 4.3 per 100,000 people (for nonfatal crimes involving guns, the decline was 71 percent). Violent crime, including homicides, did spike during the pandemic, and while the most recent data is incomplete, it's clear that gun-related violence remains far below where it was 30 years ago despite more guns than ever being out there.


Do 'more guns lead to more deaths'?
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Please.....show us.....tell us how these facts match your stupid statement that more guns = more gun deaths.....please, we will wait...

 

[Weatherman2020]

They don`t release prisoners in red states? Think, son. How many of these people never would have been in jail if they didn`t have a gun? Which party is it that blocks absolutely every proposal of the most innocuous of gun control proposals?
More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

More guns=more shootings=more prisoners.

I’ve been routinely carrying a gun since I fled California 5 years ago.

Haven’t shot a Leftard yet.
Yet.

 

[August West]

And you wont name those "inocuous" proposals because every time you do we show how stupid they are and how you only want them so you can target law abiding gun owners

What would you say to a law that makes it illegal to leave a gun in a vehicle overnight? Cars don`t have 2nd amendment rights. An estimated 40,000 weapons are stolen from vehicles every year. Even you are smart enough to know that those weapons are in the hands of criminals.

 

[john doe 101]

Why are all Democrat controlled areas such cesspits of violence and decay?
A: The policies of Democrats.
Duh.

Interpreter who served with US forces in Afghanistan, fled Taliban takeover is shot dead driving Lyft in DC

“You just don’t have words to describe how you feel about someone who had given so much to his country, not as a citizen, but then comes here and experiences some of the worst behavior …

nypost.com

Only a dumb piece of shit like yourself could "figure out" a complex issue in one sentence.

 

[john doe 101]

I’ve been routinely carrying a gun since I fled California 5 years ago.

Haven’t shot a Leftard yet.
Yet.

You're a coward.

 

[john doe 101]

You Leftard source is BS.
Please do us a favor and take a walk in your Democrat run downtown tonight.

Nice knowing ya.

You're a pussy.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Maybe if you read a book or 2, you could learn how those neighborhoods came to be. Read a book but don`t let your fellow MAGAS know you did that. You`ll be shunned.

Trumps fault, right?

 

[Polishprince]

What would you say to a law that makes it illegal to leave a gun in a vehicle overnight? Cars don`t have 2nd amendment rights. An estimated 40,000 weapons are stolen from vehicles every year. Even you are smart enough to know that those weapons are in the hands of criminals.

Such a law would be pretty fucking stupid. It would discourage people from reporting to police when their guns are stolen , increasing the number of illegal guns that officials know is out there. Detrimental to public safety.

The real purpose of such a proposed law is to encourage more law abiders to walk around defenseless.

BTW, the 4th Amendment makes it a virtually impossible law to enforce and possibly unconstitutional. People's automobiles are an extension of their persons, and with the massive increase in homelessness under the Biden Regime, cars are often people's legal homes.

 

[2aguy]

What would you say to a law that makes it illegal to leave a gun in a vehicle overnight? Cars don`t have 2nd amendment rights. An estimated 40,000 weapons are stolen from vehicles every year. Even you are smart enough to know that those weapons are in the hands of criminals.

Illegal? No.....I would make a law that says if you are in possession of a stolen gun, you get 30 years in prison. You don't punish a law abiding citizen who is the victim of a crime..you punish the actual criminal who committed or profits from the crime...

You want to punish normal people who own guns......I want to stop criminals...big difference.

 

[2aguy]

What would you say to a law that makes it illegal to leave a gun in a vehicle overnight? Cars don`t have 2nd amendment rights. An estimated 40,000 weapons are stolen from vehicles every year. Even you are smart enough to know that those weapons are in the hands of criminals.

O.K......next....what is another gun control law that you want?

 

[2aguy]

Such a law would be pretty fucking stupid. It would discourage people from reporting to police when their guns are stolen , increasing the number of illegal guns that officials know is out there. Detrimental to public safety.

The real purpose of such a proposed law is to encourage more law abiders to walk around defenseless.

BTW, the 4th Amendment makes it a virtually impossible law to enforce and possibly unconstitutional. People's automobiles are an extension of their persons, and with the massive increase in homelessness under the Biden Regime, cars are often people's legal homes.

The goal is to increase the pain for normal gun owners amd it is an attack on concealed carry laws.

The anti-gun extremists have made so many gun frwe zones that people cant carry their legal guns with them to even go grocery shopping....so their only recourse is to leave their gun in their vehicle to avoid being arrested for having a gun in them in a gun free zone.


So now, August, who wants to force gunnowners to leave their guns in their cara also wants to punish them if someone ateals that gun out of that car.....forcing normal gun owners to leave their guns at home to again. avoid the risk of being punished for leaving their gun in their vehicle .

At no point is an actual criminal targeted by his gun control law.