The original draft of this email was sent to Washington Post Metro reporters Peter Hermann, Clarence Williams and Perry Stein, and copied to several Post reporters, editors and opinion writers, as well as seven Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners in the relevant Southeast Washington, D.C. area, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, and the entire D.C. Council.
Dear Peter, Clarence and Perry,
If ANC 8C chair Salim Adofo and his Congress Heights neighbors really want to “help reduce violence… [and] get some of these illegal guns off the street,” they’d demand that folks stop having fatherless babies they can’t afford to raise, and they’d demand that the soft-on-criminals D.C. Council and mayor authorize the Metropolitan Police Department to reestablish its jump-out squads and stop-question-and-frisk operations in all high-crime areas [“Three shot, including a teenager, in District,” B1, Jan. 23].
Otherwise, all the nonsense talk and hand-wringing about murderous violence is just that. Fatherless dopes raised with no sense of right and wrong will keep killing each other and innocent people caught in their crossfire until all such dopes are dead or in prison and the rest of society returns to shaming anyone who’d even think about irresponsibly bringing an innocent child into this world without a committed, loving spouse and sufficient means to pay for proper child-rearing.
We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. This isn’t complicated. We just have to get back to nuclear family basics and common sense.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.