April 19, 2006

Why Are the Carjackers Focusing on MD and VA? (Simple Question)

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 2:29 pm

Just about any private citizen who isn’t a criminal can get a carry permit in PA, WV, VA. Yet here in MD and DC, carjacking is going through the roof. My understanding is that PG County, MD accounts for 10% of all the carjackings in the US.

Let’s see…people in VA, PA (places with some big dirty cities mind you, remember DC is right across the river from some of VA’s most populous areas, you can take a train, walk, bike, etc.) can carry guns and protect themselves. People in MD and DC can’t.

If you can’t do the math here, you’re hopeless.

5 Comments

  1. I debated whether to post a thread on the article at THR because it would be like posting a thread on the sky being blue or the ocean being wet.

    Like the other thread I started on the Chevy Chase home invation, it kills me that none of this stuff is happening in Northern Virginia, where the biggest concern in peoples’ minds is traffic congestions, not getting robbed at gun point for your car, or having your wife/partner suffer an “attempted sexual assault” in your own home.

    I also found it “interesting” that the reporter used the term “assault pistol” at least four or five times, without actually identifying what the suspected handgun was thought to be (UZI, Tec-9, etc.)

    Comment by K-Romulus — April 20, 2006 @ 10:40 am

  2. I forgot to add that under DC law a full-size semi-auto pistol (or even some mid-sizers) is deemed a “machine gun” because it could possibly fire more than 12 rounds without reloading. Maybe that is where the “assault pistol” label is coming from?

    Comment by K-Romulus — April 20, 2006 @ 10:42 am

  3. Those statistics just scratch the surface of PG county’s problem. Criminals have long ago figured out that if they run from the pg county police that they wont be chased in many instances….and unless they are fleeing from a violent crime will not be chased into DC….auto thieves in this county know the quick back ways to DC, i have seen them do it. Not to mention that the DC police are throughly uninterested in picking up PG’s trash. There is no real effective communication between the agencies, a problem seen in all levels of law enforcement.

    Comment by Dan — April 21, 2006 @ 6:42 pm

  4. Nice. Which makes it even more clear that if you’re a criminal trying to carjack someone and get the stolen auto back to a DC chopshop or safehouse, you’re even more likely to choose PG County over Northern VA. People in NoVA are richer, have nicer cars, and it’s even closer to DC than College Park or Beltsville or most other PG County metro centers–and yet crooks choose PG County. Why? They know the police are overwhelmed and they also know people aren’t armed and can’t resist. Given the overwhelmed law enforcement in PG County’s famously understaffed dept, and you can see why the whole “the Pohhhhleese will protect us” line rings rather hollow.

    The Supreme Court has ruled that the police do not have a duty to protect individuals, only the “community at large”, whatever that means. Even so, in a place as large and populous as PG County it’s simply unrealistic to demand that the police be everywhere at every moment. Their job is hard enough; if a few honest law abiding citizens could participate in their own defense, it might just get a little easier.

    Comment by Administrator — April 22, 2006 @ 8:02 am

  5. Guns in DC taxis

    TownHall has the story. DC Taxi Commissioner Sandra Seegers (plaintiff in the Seegers case challenging the DC handgun ban) proposed to let taxi drivers arm themselves against robbery. The author points out her own experience–since she lives in a (rela…

    Trackback by Of Arms and the Law — April 22, 2006 @ 5:38 pm

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