{"id":122175,"date":"2022-01-23T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122175"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:45:20","slug":"petty-insults-among-the-shooting-causes-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122175","title":{"rendered":"“Petty insults” among the shooting causes in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many reasons to why a person could get shot in Washington D.C., and elsewhere. Among the reasons for getting shot is that the shooter felt insulted. Two of the “undercurrents” motivating this event are the inability to manage anger, and the need to “get one’s way”. Tragically, this results in a person pulling a gun out instead of either “walking away” or trying to deconflict the issue.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Murders over petty insults put the broader public at risk for a variety of reasons. For one, bystanders are endangered, since most homicides are shooting victims, leaving open the threat of a stray bullet.<\/p>\n

In addition to the 2021 murder surge in D.C., the city also saw shootings in areas that aren’t usually associated with gun violence.<\/p>\n

A 6-year-old girl was killed during a July drive-by shooting. The next night, a shootout between two cars outside Nationals Park, which is frequented by political leaders, including Supreme Court Justices, caused a panicked crowd to flee the baseball stadium.<\/p>\n

In June, a stray bullet killed a Peace Corps worker on 14th Street NW — a popular area littered with bars and restaurants, like Le Diplomate, where both President Biden and Vice President Harris have been spotted. That stretch experienced another shooting just weeks later.<\/p>\n

Criminologists and local officials don’t know why gunfire has spread to neighborhoods that haven’t typically been associated with violence.<\/p>\n

The Nats Park audience experienced the same “panic that some of our neighbors feel every day,” Councilmember Charles Allen, who’s pushed to scale back police funding to expand violence prevention programs, told Fox News.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that, unlike that shooting, there were no national headlines after 14 rounds were fired half a block away just days before.<\/p>\n

“We can’t ignore the fact that we’ve got neighborhoods that experience gun violence on a routine and regular basis,” Allen said. “We’ve got to be just as concerned about the shooting and the violence that takes place that doesn’t have the spotlight.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the longer story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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