To reduce urban violence, let's consider the real causes — not guns, police or 'low' taxes

The Hill ^ | 08 18 2018 | CHRIS TALGO,

[eddie willers]

Social Darwinism is thwarted from solving the problem.

[Reeses]

Politicians from both parties have for decades been promising to improve inner-cities

Democrats own the cities. Republicans have nothing to do with it anymore. It's not our problem.

[mjp]

For decades, urban areas have been rife with pain and suffering due to violence.

Life proper to a rational being requires a society of ordered liberty. It also requires that one be able to function in such a society. This requires proper development and acquisition of right character, consisting of rational virtues and competence. This is exactly what the leftard nanny state prevents, which leads to a culture of parasitic looters and moochers.

[NobleFree]

Consider this: In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” and launched his Great Society initiatives, a massive government effort to provide housing, medical care, and other benefits to poverty-ridden areas, especially in urban centers. Trillions of dollars later, has poverty decreased since the Great Society reforms were passed? No.

Shortly after Johnson tried and failed to eradicate poverty, President Richard Nixon announced a “war on drugs,” and so began the government’s attempt to rein in the thriving urban illicit drug industry. Has drug use decreased since this proclaimed war on drugs? No.

Yup - two failed big-government programs that conservatives should denounce.

[the_individual2014]

Well thankful my IQ is normal and I work in the IT field, plus my family is very intelligent, guess I was lucky.

[arrogantsob]

As you said we are all individuals.