Whenever you find yourself conflicted over a very contentious story in the news, one of the easiest ways to resolve the debate is to listen to people who scream the loudest. People with no argument tend to reveal themselves very quickly, mainly by screeching and ranting incoherently to the point that it’s actually kind of amusing.
That happens to be the case with the ongoing drama over whether or not the nation’s capital, Washington D.C., should resemble Mogadishu or not. On the one hand, you have the president of the United States, who’s just invoked his legal authority to take over the district’s police force for the next 30 days. He’s also pledged to send in the National Guard and redeploy hundreds of FBI agents to perform law enforcement duties on the streets. On the other hand, in defense of allowing the nation’s capital to continue its descent into worse-than-third-world status, you have…this:
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