Thank goodness that d.c. has those strict gun control laws (unenforced)in place to prevent such travesties from occuring. WHAT! The laws didn’t work? Well then we must quickly pass some more (unenforced) laws to prevent further such incidents from happening. Seriously. You either have to be REALLY stupid or a radical left wing extremist demokkkrat scumbag to be unable to understand the concept that the bad guys don’t give a damn about your/our laws. But then again “stupid” and “RLWEDS” is redundant. Certainly limiting the “clip” capacity to 10 would have meant that only 10 max might have been injured. Unless there was more than one shooter. Or they didn’t care what difi and durbin have to say. How about we “require” all new inductee’s into MS-13 have universal background checks too. What morons. Except they know exactly what they are doing.
Could the difference be the larger Black and Hispanic communities in D.C.? No, there are as many Blacks in Northern Virginia as D.C., and many more Hispanics.
Could it be those in D.C. are poorer and more likely drawn to crime for that reason? The answer, again is no: many parts of Northern Virginia, Prince William County, for example, have as much poverty as any part of D.C.
Could it be that D.C has made it almost impossible for one to own a handgun, while Northern Virginia has few such restrictions and a must-issue concealed carry law? Maybe.
Could it have something to do with the judiciary, where in D.C. one can get be convicted of robbery or manslaughter and get probation, where in Virginia one will see the inside of a jail for the smallest property crime. I would say that's the largest part of it.