Of course, it's fun to make fun of the "abolish the police" people who are also big government people. Ya know, the people who want to abolish the police and have the police go door to door and confiscate our guns. The people who want to abolish the police demanded that the police arrest Kyle Rittenhouse. The people who want to abolish the police while wanting the police to round up all the billionaires for having too much money. Ya know, people who don't have two neurons to rub together.
It's fun to make fun of them until you realize that, despite their obvious stupidity, they're winning a lot of political battles and people are really getting hurt.
I've been around guns my entire adult life. I never bothered to get a carry permit until this year. I made the decision for a few reasons. One reason is that I'm back in Arizona, which is a state with fairly liberal gun laws. Another factor is that, well, the book dial 911 and Die was published in 1999, and even then the point was being made that the cops aren't going to get there in time to save you in an emergency; since then, police response times have gotten much worse. Here in Arizona, the average response time to a 911 call is 25 minutes. That's enough time for a bad guy to kill you and have sex with your dead body with time to spare, and that's assuming you could even make the call.
The thing is, Arizona actually isn't that bad by comparison.
New Orleans has gone full woke in regard to criminal justice and policing. Right now, the average response time to a 911 call in New Orleans is over two hours. It's gotten so bad that calls from witnesses reporting rapes being committed in public are being downgraded to non-emergency status. Armed robberies have been committed with the police showing up at the scene the next day.
I'm not saying that wokesters are pro-criminal; but...but I don't know how to finish that sentence. Wokesters are either pro-criminal, or incredibly stupid, or both. And this isn't about some backhanded way to try to undermine private property rights, or fight the war on poverty by letting people steal a certain amount of shit from local businesses and assuming that all of these thieves are basically Aladdin. Even if it were, the wokesters would be wrong; but, their opinions would be more defensible.
No, we're talking about rapes and murders.
Maybe some of the wokesters will read this and it will be news to them. Maybe they're simply unaware that things are getting this bad in places with woke policies. Well, if you're reading this, you don't have an excuse anymore.
If you are aware of this and you're still convinced that it's worth it to keep pushing for woke policies and politicians, note that you've probably spent the last several years saying that anybody who voted for Trump is either a racist, or too okay with racism.