Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) said that he and other unnamed lawmakers have slept in their offices at the Capitol because Washington, D.C., is “very dangerous” at night. He did not elaborate.
“I don’t want to walk back and forth from an apartment in D.C. at night or in the morning—early morning—to get to work,” Mr. Burlison told Todd Starnes on his radio program. “It’s not a safe environment.”
He made reference to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) having recently been carjacked in the district just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The Democratic lawmaker was unharmed but his car was stolen by three armed assailants, police said.
“It’s insane to even own a car in D.C. because wherever you park, it is going to cost you a fortune and it’s likely to get broken into and you’re likely to get carjacked,” Mr. Burlison said.
As for Mr. Cuellar, he was back at work in the Capitol on Tuesday morning. Recalling the incident on Sunday night, he said that the assailants appeared from “out of nowhere” and “pointed guns at me.”
“I looked at one with a gun, another with a gun, and I felt one behind me,” Mr. Cuellar said. “They said they wanted my car, and I said, ‘Sure.’ You got to keep calm under those situations, and they took off.”
The congressman was approached by three young black males in black clothing and black masks, according to a statement Mr. Cuellar gave to Capitol officials.
Rules of thumb….If you can’t carry your weapon don’t go there.
My rule of thumb, carry anyway because if and when it could happen to you and your loved ones it will save your life when the savages try murdering you, better to stand trial by a jury of ten then be carried out and buried by six, is my motto. Screw them and their illegal laws. just don’t carry in city, state and federal buildings if not posted.
M Wolf, apparently you can. Read the article. 3 buggers carrying guns jacked the guy.
Couldn’t have happened to a better bunch of communist P.O.S. democrats, they deserve everything they get and more. the democratic leaders with the help of the Rino republic-rats are responsible for the crime wave across the nation. I don’t care what happens to them and let them all get a dose of what they have dishing out to what law-abiding citizens.
Just another day in a Blue City.
He didn’t just get jacked, he was hoisted by his own petard!
“The congressman was approached by three young black males in black clothing and black masks, according to a statement Mr. Cuellar gave to Capitol officials.”
I’m just glad the congressman didn’t run into the same guy who gunned down a young woman in D.C. back a few years ago. That cold-blooded killer is still on the loose. The congressman might not be alive to tell his story if he had.
Now, what was young woman’s name? Oh yea, now I remember, her name was Ashli Babbitt.
And, God rest her soul.
this is a kinda dumb statement, meant to be laughable
“If you build it, they will come”.