One dead after gunman opens fire on SUV in rush hour on D.C. highway
Source: Washington Post
A gunman in a car opened fire on a sport utility vehicle during Thursday mornings rush hour on the Anacostia Freeway in Southwest Washington, killing one man and seriously wounding another, according to D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier.
The shooting occurred shortly before 9 a.m., leaving a bullet-riddled vehicle in the middle of the northbound lanes of the highway and snarling traffic headed into the District from Maryland and Virginia. Authorities expected the northbound lanes to be shut for hours.
Police said at first that the shooting might be the result of road rage, but Lanier said later in the morning that it appeared the gunman had followed the SUV onto the highway from Virginia. It was not clear whether there was an earlier confrontation or whether the SUV was targeted for another reason.
It was during rush-hour traffic, Lanier said. Were trying to get people to give us more information. She urged anyone who witnessed the incident or the vehicles earlier in the morning to call police at 202-727-9099. She said the car with the gunman was tentatively described as a dark-colored sedan, possibly a Toyota Camry or a Honda.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/two-men-shot-on-anacostia-freeway-in-southwest-northbound-highway-shut/2015/05/28/e17f40c4-053a-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Sounds like a gang or mafia type killing. A coworker of my wife got caught in the major traffic jam. Never a dull moment on 295 during rush hour.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Judges ruling allows concealed-carry for D.C. gun owners, shoots down police objections
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141104476
Gun nuts, fear the future. There will be a tipping point.
hack89
(39,171 posts)that tipping point will continue to recede.
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)That's what I thought too after Sandy Hook. For sure something would be done now. But it wasn't. However, not everyone has given up. Thanks.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)america makes me sad
we don't care about 20 little children getting blown away...
we don't care about Black men being killed...
we don't care about innocent Iraqis or Afghani's getting killed...
I sometimes wonder - is everyone asleep?
(I am using a generalization when I say "we"
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Can your statement be anymore ridiculous?
Skittles
(152,965 posts)cowards RULE
But this had absolutely nothing to do with the judge's ruling.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)have you told the cops?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)if it is to be more than an agenda driven emotional knee jerk reply. I can't imagine you being so shallow hence my question.
brush
(53,475 posts)An armed, out of control thug opens fire on a car on a crowded freeway endangering many lives who has to know who did it to criticize it?
hack89
(39,171 posts)which is a common agenda driven thoughtless knee jerk reply anti-gun posters use. We know nothing about the shooter yet the poster saw it as an opportunity to smear all responsible gun owners.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)No True Scottish gun-owner...
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)you don't need to convince me.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)See, I can spout slogans also.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Drivers are rigorously screened before being given a license. As opposed to guns .... where anyone can own one
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)That's a false statement.
Felons, a person ruled by a court to be mentally ill, convicted of domestic violence, all are prohibited from owning firearms.
And you're right, firearm is a right, not a privilege.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)except we really don't check for those things now do we? I mean there are enough loopholes to drive a tank through. I can go to Walmart drunk off my ass and buy a gun and ammo. Could you test drive a car at a dealership in that condition?
hack89
(39,171 posts)And I take it you are unaware that in many states it is illegal to handle a gun while drunk.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Why don't you go try that and then get back to us after you get out of jail.
Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.
sarisataka
(18,220 posts)let us know how it goes
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)and you know it is
hack89
(39,171 posts)any system with a nearly 100 % pass rate is not rigorous.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Now in Germany, that would be true.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Hence, mandatory insurance?
hack89
(39,171 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 1, 2015, 06:10 PM - Edit history (1)
and I doubt you can force criminals to pay for it due to 5th Amendment issues.
The problem with insurance is that it is irrelevant when it comes to most gun deaths. It won't stop suicides (nearly 70% of gun deaths) and insurance companies won't pay out for criminal or negligent acts (they are not stupid). And the number of true accidents involving non-family members is tiny compared to the number of gun legal gun owners. So there is no money in it for insurance companies - the premiums would be a pittance based on the actuarial data. There is a reason why owning guns will not raise the price of your home insurance while owning a swimming pool or certain dogs will.
But say you passed such a law. You have just given the NRA a gift beyond imagination. They would promptly go into the insurance business like AARP - insurance companies would pay big money for an NRA endorsement. They would then offer big discounts for members, giving every gun owner in America a financial incentive to join the NRA. Imagine a NRA with a massive revenue stream and a membership ten times bigger than it is now. Is that what you really want?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)The controllers really haven't thought that one all the way through, have they?
Then again, most culture warriors don't grok 'counterproductive'...
sarisataka
(18,220 posts)and lose your license for 5 or 6 DUIs, don't worry you get another. Once you kill someone- like say an 18 year old girl, while drunk again, you go to jail for a couple years, take a class or two and guess what? You get your license back.
Not that the license is all that important. You can still buy the truck you will use to kill that girl in a private sale- cash and no questions asked. Anyone can do it.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Loophole big enough to drive a truck through
beevul
(12,194 posts)What hurdles are there, when it comes to car ownership?
Assuming we want to talk apples and apples.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)and make training, psychological assessment etc. a part of gun ownership -- meaning a license that has to be renewed and restrictions on ownership.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)telling us "don't worry, this is just a random event" and "it has nothing to do with guns but the person who pulled the trigger."
Let's face it -- if they were not armed with guns and just carried slingshots, two people would be alive today.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)See, I can do this all day long.
Tell me, does a gun shoot itself? Or does a human have to shoot it?
Why do you blame an inanimate object instead of the human?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)One more, and you'll have a trifecta.
When someone shows up and says what you claim will be said, point them out for us.
In the meantime, I will have been able to translate War and Peace into Yahi
(with notes and commentary in Cornish)...
C Moon
(12,188 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)No liberal should ever support licenses to exercise Constitutional rights.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,178 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Do you support having to have a license for a constitutional right?
C Moon
(12,188 posts)They always bring up cars, or voting, etc, etc.
I play guitar. If guitars were used for centuries to kill, and it was decided that they should be regulated and licensed, and I would be all for it, if it would help save some lives.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Will criminals get a license for themselves or their illegal guns?
Why should I be required to get a license for a constitutional right?
I'm fortunate that I live in a state that recognizes that the 2nd Amendment is a right, not a privilege.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)pertaining to firearms ownership. Federal, state and even local ones.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)They just get tied into knots when confronted with the hypocrisy
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I thought us firearms owners were the ones that are paranoid and always scared of something?
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ileus
(15,396 posts)You're upgrading your truck gun to a 45, but your tag line is about peace being within? There's something more than a little wrong here.
Telcontar
(660 posts)After all, DC is crawling with foreign spies, rival agencies, whistle blowers, and defence contractors.