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How close we are to more shootings
If the government doesn't protect people from being terrorized by crime, they will protect themselves. It's not hard to understand.
This is how it is in northwest pakistan, afghanistan, parts of mexico, and apparently a few poorly run liberal cities in America.
People who claim the safety is threatened by offensive social media comment or a NYT op-ed should really try to exercise some theory of mind about what it's like to have someone breaking your window, hurling bricks at you, setting fire to the place your family built.
Growing up one of the formative experiences for me was seeing private security with rifles everywhere in Karachi when I would travel there. That's the future of any place that doesn't have accountable and responsive police. Gangs, mafia, warlords, outsourcing violence.
The Taliban straight up blew up a hotel I was stayed in once (which I talk about briefly here). I don't think the sons and daughters of professors and doctors and lawyers talking about "police abolition" acknowledge the necessity of the state
Terrorists overran Pakistan basically because Pakistan has weak state capacity, and inadequate policing and special forces. It's a privilege to live in a place that has state capacity so you don't have to arm yourself to survive.
