Is it a result of keeping everyone off the street so drug deals aren't going bad, people aren't walking the streets waiting to be mugged, thugs aren't cruising the streets looking for a scrap? (You would think that all the potential murderers sitting at home are eventually going to snap after being cooped up with friends and family for the last week or so. Which leads us to Christina's astute observation that we''ll only know that there weren't any murders until after the inevitable Big Thaw. Yes, I know, that sounds like the set-up of a Law and Order episode.
"Wow, it's unseasonably hot today. All the snow is melting..."
"Is that a hand sticking out of that rapidly melting snowbank?"
"ARGH!"
*cue Law and Order music*)
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or is it just an unfortunate GI Joe that someone forgot where they "carbon froze" him?
So, you think DC's lower murder rate (over the past year) has anything to do with the Heller Supreme Court decision?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
In 2009 murders were down %25. They haven't been that low since 1967, see this (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/01/john-lott-supreme-court-guns-chicago-ban/?test=latestnews)
That is even with the extra criminals that moved into Congress and the White House last year!
It's amazing how violent crime goes down when potential victims have effective means to defend themselves!
Wait a second... Who are the only people in DC who don't secretly have guns already? I'm guessing it's the Georgetown liberals who most likely didn't run to the nearest gun store the moment the ban ended. And it's not like they're the ones who are getting murdered either. No, I'd guess the decline is due to either a) a weird statistical blip or b) all those police double and triple shifts that Lanier keeps calling for. (Evidence shows that more cops on the street does have some effect on the violent crime rate.)
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