Last Sunday, during a roundtable discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press, Representative Raul Labrador (R-ID) made the mistake of attributing seven recent homicides to the District of Columbia, when in fact they had occurred in neighboring Prince George’s County. Despite the fact that all Labrador (or someone on his staff) had to do to avoid the error was simply look at this website which said the District had only experienced three homicides at the time of his comment, we were still willing to cut the guy a break. After all, we realize that it’s incredibly easy for some members of Congress to simply lump our region together into one homogenous geographical glob.

Yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” freshman Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador mistakenly ascribed the rash of murders in Prince George’s County — nine so far, including two on Saturday alone — to the District. The slip-up came during a conversation on gun control in the wake of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ).