I was driving home to my condo in Washington, D.C., around 9 p.m. after finishing my day at the United States Capitol. Three masked men walked past me purposely, as if they had a mission. A few minutes after settling into my condo, my daughter called and asked if I was the congressman who had just been carjacked.
It wasn’t me, but one of my colleagues had to go through the harrowing experience just a block from where I saw the three masked men.
There were 750 carjackings in Washington in the 10 months before my colleague became a victim. A gun was used in over 75% of those crimes.
This month, President Donald Trump deployed U.S. National Guard personnel in Washington and put local police under
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