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We need to become a state. This is embarrassingly awful.

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how about we make it very easy...get caught with using a gun during a car jacking or other violent crime, stop the plea bargaining. Period. Once this happens, you'll see gun crime drop dramatically. If you give a human a chance to break the law again, they will. This is something a kid would know.

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Ah yes, another episode of the feds ignoring criminal firearm offenses. Prosecute gun crime? No thanks, we're too busy turning brace owners into felons.

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Matt Graves is a failure. Read the press releases from his office about convictions and it is case after case of regular people who were in the capitol on J6. He is a politically prosecuting political opponents while he lets off violent criminals. People have died so Matt Graves can put Trump supporters in prison. He is an evil man

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Why on earth do we keep reelecting the same soft on crime district attorneys. It is beyond my understanding that 80% of illegal gun arrest do not end up with felony convictions. This strengthens the perception that this town is part of a banana republic.

Law and order is central to this democracy that we supposedly live in however, I failed to see any real evidence of that.

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Rarely do you see a comment where it is so obvious that the person didn’t read a single word of the article.

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The Office of the DC United States Attorney has been a "Festival of Fools" for years.

It's about time some of those two bit career prosecutors find new jobs at 1-800-dial-dui.....

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Gun laws are meant to disarm honest people.

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This is one way for the administration to “reduce crime.” Just don’t convict criminals.

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another great post. thank you!

thinking about how my vote for council can affect this landscape. Thinking about Lisa Gore for Ward 4. Wondering what you think:

https://www.gorefordc.com/public-safety

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