Women friends of mine are afraid to walk out of their houses after dark in very nice areas of Atlanta, New York, Charleston, Memphis, Marin County and several other places. The # 1 civil right in a civilized society is for women to not only feel safe, but to be safe anywhere while out in public. Anywhere. This is the very reason why governments are formed. To keep order, protect life, limb and property. Most men are hard wired to protect women. It is in our DNA. It might be our most important function in life. Unless you are a “Tim” (Tim Walz, Tim Kaine, Tiny Tim), you not only understand this, you obligate yourself to this precept. Then Why? Why do we allow society’s most precious asset, women, to be marginalized in crime infested neighborhoods? I’ll tell you why. We made a bargain with the devil. We’ve been told that it’s the government’s role to do what we used to do ourselves. We’ve abdicated our individual responsibility in favor of “collective” responsibility. And what do we have to show for it? A nation where half the male population are timorous “Tims,” and rampant crime is everywhere.
I live where history bubbles out of the ground.
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