U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked Monday night by three armed attackers, his office said.
Cuellar’s chief of staff Jacob Hochberg released a statement saying: “As Congressman Cuellar was parking his car this evening, 3 armed assailants approached the Congressman and stole his vehicle. Luckily, he was not harmed and is working with local law enforcement.”
Hochberg said police recovered Cuellar’s vehicle.
Ohh no, anyway!
I don’t wish harm on Cuellar, but if we separate the person from the politician, he’s had a pretty terrible corpo friendly record.
This may be where the previoud post was coming from.
If this is Texas, where are all of the good guys with guns to help?
Carjacking a Democrat!
-MAGA fuckwads
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The good guys with guns were abiding by Washington DC laws and not possessing firearms. The criminals not following the law had them. Sounds like they were bold in their actions assuming their victims would be unable to defend themselves
In DC v Heller the Supreme Court overturned many of DC’s gun restriction laws.
It looks to me like DC still goes out of its way to make even buying a weapon a pain in the ass:
Application for Firearms Registration Certificate (PD-219)
Firearms Registration Application Statement of Eligibility
Firearms Certificate Information Update Form (Please complete this form and submit it to the Firearms Registration Branch via email at firearms.adminbox@dc.gov)
Fingerprint Fee Notice and Worksheet
Firearm Application Addendum-Used Firearm Explanation
Take Online Firearms Safety Training Course (30 Minutes) and bring certificate to initial visit Copy of your Government Issued Identification, i.e., Driver’s License, Military ID (original will be verified again in person)I guess ATF-4473 doesn’t do enough tracking/registering for their liking.
And that’s before you go beg the cops to be allowed to legally carry a weapon to defend yourself.
omg! a 30 minute course. paperwork! Fees!!! Well that is just to much for a desperately needed implement to guarantee my safety that not having will result in your being dead or so I seem to hear from the folk who can’t abide restrictions on it.
That’s federalism in action. Different localities experiment with different solutions.
I love that gun nuts always assume no one carrying is ever the victim of a violent crime
Lol clown
Washington really is turning into a shit hole. I guess legislators saw Portland and San Francisco and thought, “that looks like a great way to run a city!”
Portland and San Francisco aren’t even in the top 20 worst cities for crime in the U.S.
Granted, San Francisco is #21, but I can’t imagine why you didn’t say “Memphis, TN” (#1) or “Little Rock, AR” (#5)…
They never have a reply to this one.
I brought up the existence of per capita statistics in another thread about gun violence in cities, and *crickets*
Numbers hurt people’s politics
D.C. didn’t make the list either.
Yep. I’ve been to D.C. I’ve been to Baltimore. I didn’t feel unsafe at all despite the right constantly using those as examples of cities that are war zones.
Neither does Chicago or Detroit.
And while SLC and San Francisco have some rough areas, there are a lot of high quality services and perks of living there (if you can afford it).
Sadly, Memphis doesn’t surprise me.
EDIT: Funny to see Boulder being on the #4 as best places to live while Denver is on this list.
I’ve lived in both, you figure out how and where not to go pretty quickly.
As long as you have common sense most places aren’t too dangerous. Just keep to yourself if you’re in the sketchy neighborhood and don’t hang around at night. I think these representative are use to small towns where meth heads steal your ladder and don’t kill because usually people know who they are.
And that’s true about pretty much any city. Just learn where the sketchy parts are and avoid them.
That said, people even get carjacked in those small towns. It can literally happen anywhere.
I live in a small city in SoCal, Yucaipa for those curious. And people lement that the city is getting so dangerous now, meanwhile the worst crime I know of was a methhead shooting someone in a fucking parking lot. Ya can still walk around at 2 in the morning and the worst threat would probably be the cars.
lol I take it you’ve never been to Portland
the 'ole “Portland is now a flaming crater becausw the news showed me a picture of a flaming trash can” narrative.
Has it ever been great. I was looking at a position at university of maryland at one point and it was sorta crazy as anywhere you could live was either really cheap and scary or expesive and luxurious. I could not find anything in-between.
