One dead after gunman opens fire on SUV in rush hour on D.C. highway

[alp227]

Source: Washington Post

A gunman in a car opened fire on a sport utility vehicle during Thursday morning’s rush hour on the Anacostia Freeway in Southwest Washington, killing one man and seriously wounding another, according to D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier.

The shooting occurred shortly before 9 a.m., leaving a bullet-riddled vehicle in the middle of the northbound lanes of the highway and snarling traffic headed into the District from Maryland and Virginia. Authorities expected the northbound lanes to be shut for hours.

Police said at first that the shooting might be the result of road rage, but Lanier said later in the morning that it appeared the gunman had followed the SUV onto the highway from Virginia. It was not clear whether there was an earlier confrontation or whether the SUV was targeted for another reason.

“It was during rush-hour traffic,” Lanier said. “We’re trying to get people to give us more information.” She urged anyone who witnessed the incident or the vehicles earlier in the morning to call police at 202-727-9099. She said the car with the gunman was tentatively described as a dark-colored sedan, possibly a Toyota Camry or a Honda.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/two-men-shot-on-anacostia-freeway-in-southwest-northbound-highway-shut/2015/05/28/e17f40c4-053a-11e5-bc72-f3e16bf50bb6_story.html

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Road rage meets ubiquity of firearms? Fan-fucking-tastic.

[DCBob]

2. That's my route going to work... just missed it by an hour or so.

Sounds like a gang or mafia type killing. A coworker of my wife got caught in the major traffic jam. Never a dull moment on 295 during rush hour.

[onehandle]

3. How timely...

Judge’s ruling allows concealed-carry for D.C. gun owners, shoots down police objections

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141104476

Gun nuts, fear the future. There will be a tipping point.

[hack89]

5. If gun violence continues its steady decline

that tipping point will continue to recede.

[Journeyman]

7. Since nothing was done after Sandy Hook, nothing ever will be done . . .

[LiberalElite]

20. Please consider clicking on this:

http://act.everytown.org/sign/wear-orange


That's what I thought too after Sandy Hook. For sure something would be done now. But it wasn't. However, not everyone has given up. Thanks.

[LiberalElite]

53. I'm wearing that orange flag pin tomorrow nt

[IcyPeas]

50. journeyman, my thoughts exactly

america makes me sad

we don't care about 20 little children getting blown away...
we don't care about Black men being killed...
we don't care about innocent Iraqis or Afghani's getting killed...

I sometimes wonder - is everyone asleep?

(I am using a generalization when I say "we&quot

[GGJohn]

8. Yeah, this was about a judge ruling that DC has to allow for CCW.

Can your statement be anymore ridiculous?

[Skittles]

46. the context is that gun humpers have won

cowards RULE

[GGJohn]

47. Oh, ok.

But this had absolutely nothing to do with the judge's ruling.

[cosmicone]

4. Another "responsible" gun owner -- at least "responsible" until yesterday! n/t

[hack89]

6. So you know who did the shooting?

have you told the cops?

[cosmicone]

9. Do I have to know who did it? n/t

[hack89]

10. An intelligent, well thought out post should have some real facts behind it

if it is to be more than an agenda driven emotional knee jerk reply. I can't imagine you being so shallow hence my question.

[brush]

44. What does knowing who did the shooting have to do with it?

An armed, out of control thug opens fire on a car on a crowded freeway endangering many lives — who has to know who did it to criticize it?

[hack89]

45. I was addressing the "responsible gun owner" meme

which is a common agenda driven thoughtless knee jerk reply anti-gun posters use. We know nothing about the shooter yet the poster saw it as an opportunity to smear all responsible gun owners.

[LanternWaste]

48. No True Scottish gun-owner...

No True Scottish gun-owner...

[friendly_iconoclast]

55. Except that it wasn't a "No True Scotsman", it was pointing out a strawman argument

[LiberalArkie]

11. Everyone is a responsible gun owner until they are not.

[hack89]

12. Every one of us is a pre-criminal.

you don't need to convince me.

[GGJohn]

13. Everyone is a responsible driver until they're not.

See, I can spout slogans also.

[cosmicone]

15. Driving is a priviledge and not a right

Drivers are rigorously screened before being given a license. As opposed to guns .... where anyone can own one

[GGJohn]

18. Where anyone can own one?

That's a false statement.
Felons, a person ruled by a court to be mentally ill, convicted of domestic violence, all are prohibited from owning firearms.
And you're right, firearm is a right, not a privilege.

[MyNameGoesHere]

22. Oh now ain't that peachy

except we really don't check for those things now do we? I mean there are enough loopholes to drive a tank through. I can go to Walmart drunk off my ass and buy a gun and ammo. Could you test drive a car at a dealership in that condition?

[hack89]

24. What do you think a background check checks?

And I take it you are unaware that in many states it is illegal to handle a gun while drunk.

[GGJohn]

28. You really think WalMart will sell you a rifle and ammo if you show up drunk?

Why don't you go try that and then get back to us after you get out of jail.
Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

[sarisataka]

31. You go do that

let us know how it goes

[Duckhunter935]

39. And I call bullshit

and you know it is

[hack89]

23. Drivers are not rigorously screened

any system with a nearly 100 % pass rate is not rigorous.

[Duckhunter935]

32. I had to laugh at that one myself

Now in Germany, that would be true.

[LanternWaste]

49. Hence, mandatory insurance?

Hence, mandatory insurance?

[hack89]

52. Only for real accidents

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and I doubt you can force criminals to pay for it due to 5th Amendment issues.

The problem with insurance is that it is irrelevant when it comes to most gun deaths. It won't stop suicides (nearly 70% of gun deaths) and insurance companies won't pay out for criminal or negligent acts (they are not stupid). And the number of true accidents involving non-family members is tiny compared to the number of gun legal gun owners. So there is no money in it for insurance companies - the premiums would be a pittance based on the actuarial data. There is a reason why owning guns will not raise the price of your home insurance while owning a swimming pool or certain dogs will.

But say you passed such a law. You have just given the NRA a gift beyond imagination. They would promptly go into the insurance business like AARP - insurance companies would pay big money for an NRA endorsement. They would then offer big discounts for members, giving every gun owner in America a financial incentive to join the NRA. Imagine a NRA with a massive revenue stream and a membership ten times bigger than it is now. Is that what you really want?

[friendly_iconoclast]

54. "Imag(in)e a NRA with a massive revenue stream and a membership ten times bigger than it is now."

The controllers really haven't thought that one all the way through, have they?

Then again, most culture warriors don't grok 'counterproductive'...

[sarisataka]

36. And if you fuck up

and lose your license for 5 or 6 DUIs, don't worry you get another. Once you kill someone- like say an 18 year old girl, while drunk again, you go to jail for a couple years, take a class or two and guess what? You get your license back.

Not that the license is all that important. You can still buy the truck you will use to kill that girl in a private sale- cash and no questions asked. Anyone can do it.

[Duckhunter935]

40. what no background check?

Loophole big enough to drive a truck through

[beevul]

57. How much screening is done when one buys a car?

What hurdles are there, when it comes to car ownership?

Assuming we want to talk apples and apples.

[cosmicone]

14. Which means we cannot take their word for it

and make training, psychological assessment etc. a part of gun ownership -- meaning a license that has to be renewed and restrictions on ownership.

[GGJohn]

16. Ummmm, no. eom.

[cosmicone]

17. I knew the gun lovers will be here in full force

telling us "don't worry, this is just a random event" and "it has nothing to do with guns but the person who pulled the trigger."

Let's face it -- if they were not armed with guns and just carried slingshots, two people would be alive today.

[GGJohn]

19. If a drunk haven't driven a car, thousands would still be alive today.

See, I can do this all day long.
Tell me, does a gun shoot itself? Or does a human have to shoot it?
Why do you blame an inanimate object instead of the human?

[friendly_iconoclast]

56. That's the second strawman argument you've employed in this thread alone

One more, and you'll have a trifecta.
When someone shows up and says what you claim will be said, point them out for us.

In the meantime, I will have been able to translate War and Peace into Yahi
(with notes and commentary in Cornish)...

[C Moon]

21. I like that!

[NutmegYankee]

25. Do you support IDs for voting too?

No liberal should ever support licenses to exercise Constitutional rights.

[C Moon]

26. Silly.

[NutmegYankee]

27. Whatever.

[GGJohn]

29. Why is it silly?

Do you support having to have a license for a constitutional right?

[C Moon]

30. Because gun owners never say how regulations would directly effect them.

They always bring up cars, or voting, etc, etc.
I play guitar. If guitars were used for centuries to kill, and it was decided that they should be regulated and licensed, and I would be all for it, if it would help save some lives.

[GGJohn]

33. How would licensing guns or owners save lives?

Will criminals get a license for themselves or their illegal guns?
Why should I be required to get a license for a constitutional right?
I'm fortunate that I live in a state that recognizes that the 2nd Amendment is a right, not a privilege.

[Duckhunter935]

41. there are already books of regulations

pertaining to firearms ownership. Federal, state and even local ones.

[Duckhunter935]

34. It does seem so

They just get tied into knots when confronted with the hypocrisy

[C Moon]

37. Sounds more like something I'd read on Yahoo News. Wow. DU can get scary.

[Duckhunter935]

42. Do tell, why are you scared?

I thought us firearms owners were the ones that are paranoid and always scared of something?

[ileus]

38. Another reason I upgraded my "truck gun" to a 45 last fall.

[lisby]

43. Damn, skippy.

You're upgrading your truck gun to a 45, but your tag line is about peace being within? There's something more than a little wrong here.

[Telcontar]

51. Any possibility it was a hit?

After all, DC is crawling with foreign spies, rival agencies, whistle blowers, and defence contractors.