Is the goal reasonable gun control laws, or is the goal saving lives?

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23. God no. Come visit the neighborhoods some time.

The showcases for "gentrification" have been Columbia Heights in Ward 1 and Capitol Hill in Ward 6. The poor people were not "run out of town", though the huge concrete boxes they were being kept in were torn down. Now, DC may be a special case because these neighborhoods hadn't been rebuilt since the '68 riots and still literally had burned out vacant lots and boarded up storefronts everywhere as recently as 10 years ago, so there was room to do all of this. But there are still definitely poor people there.

Incidentally, "urban renewal" is exactly what we were trying to reverse. "Urban Renewal" was the plan that got us things like Sursum Corda in DC or Cabrini Green in Chicago: take all the poor people, put them in big concrete "housing" towers, and hope that the obvious problems with that don't come to fruition (which they invariably do). DC's plan was to tear down the crime- and drug-ridden projects, get people into the less dense rowhouses in the neighborhood, and use the freed-up land for the commercial development that's been as of yet afraid to move in to those neighborhoods.