'Too often, these guns are about death, not self-protection. They are about taking away the most fundamental right: the right to exist, and to do it without fear,' writes columnist anitachabria
they shouldn’t have guns in the first place. All the while, the rest of us argue over whether the 2nd Amendment protects the use of automatic weapons on our city streets.
But the truth is, there are no answers that will soothe his pain. His son is dead. I have spoken to too many family members who lost a loved one to violence. Many of them have shared this sorrowful reality with me: Nothing can make it right. Berry Accius, another community activist who has long worked on violence prevention, arrived downtown shortly after the 2 a.m. massacre and had been there for five hours by the time he and I spoke. He echoed Clark, telling me that at the start of the year, he cautioned that we should be “laser-focused” on guns after the pandemic. But no one was listening then.
— find themselves crammed together on K Street. Nearly every night, said Clark, there are fights. For years, ever since this strip of downtown has tried to revitalize itself after years of decline, there’s been talk of how to keep peace on the Kay, as city marketers dubbed the stretch.Relatives gathered near a bar where the gunfire is believed to have erupted, hugging each other, looking for information and coming to terms with losses.
Schubert and I have been talking for months about that rise. She thinks it’s from a combination of factors: people afraid during the pandemic, rising economic inequity, organized unemployment fraud that left criminals with millions in ill-gotten funds. It was, she said, inevitable that COVID-19 would make things worse.
There is going to be a 13th mass shooting, and a 14th and a 15th. Steinberg called America’s position on guns “one of the greatest signs of irrationality and sickness in our country.”
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