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[winterbadger]

Washington, DC, a dangerous place

This has been thoroughly mocked in many parts of the blogosphere (and, of course, hotly defended in others) for its perceived racism and general goofiness.

However, what really got me was the comment posted on the originating blog from a Maine Tea Partyer who had stayed at a cheap hotel in DC and said that "I called home and while I was on the phone there was a burst of 9MM automatic weapons fire in the street."

Aren't people like the Tea Party fervid about preserving our right to bear arms? Then why be so alarmed that people are exercising it? :-)

Comments

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

And how is he so familiar with the sound of gunshots that he knows it was a 9MM?

[winterbadger]

My guess is it's about as likely as that it was "automatic" weapons fire.

I hear gunfire from time to time (maybe once or twice a year) in Langley Park. It's usually two or three shots, spaced about a second or a half second apart. Clearly pistol fire.

A MAC-10 on an MP-5 letting loose a burst or a couple of bursts sounds *very* different. And I find it very unlikely that he heard that anywhere in DC...

[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

The gunshots were probably on a TV in another room.

[winterbadger]

Someone watching a rerun of The Wire. :-) Or Clear and Present Danger.

If he got a REALLY cheap hotel room in DC, I don't doubt that he heard some gunshots from outside. But, then, all cities have bad neighborhoods. There are parts of Boston, Worcester, and Springfield I wouldn't advise people to wander around in at night. Doesn't mean the cities as a whole aren't safe.