MunkyNutts

Air Marshal would rise up and put several shoots at center mass.

Even worse, Trump is informed by social media influencers and sycophants, some of the dumbest mother fuckers in our society.

Last Week Tonight did a good piece on it recently: https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI

I kind of see this in the same vein as Christians saying, “How can you be moral without a belief in God?” I don’t believe it’s a presence of a deterrent that prevents it but a security in your environment or person that is the cause.

Sure there is always going to be people that take advantage of other: theft, rape, violence, murder. But these things haven’t been lost with the presence of police. In fact most studies offer solutions that involve enhancing/improving social and community structures without involving policing or an increase.

https://violenceprevention.tulane.edu/resources/strategies-for-community-based-violence-prevention/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-states-can-lead-on-community-safety-five-recommendations-for-preventing-and-reducing-violence/

It’s been fun watching him on PBS squirm and thrash, and then finally concede that Trump and his ilk are bad for the nation. He was (sort of still is) a Trump apologist for too long.