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Critical Race Theory is certainly a pernicious and stupid theory, but I doubt the hate-filled criminals going around assaulting white people are into reading much of anything. Obviously, they're filled with a lot of hate for white people, but I'm willing to bet the great majority probably cannot read at anything beyond a fourth-grade level if at all. The only thing that will deter these kinds of attacks is a combination of better policing i.e. profiling and armed citizens ready and able to use their firearms to protect themselves.

The criminals themselves were probably lost to society by the sixth grade if not before. Through either reasoning with them (doomed to failure) or tougher methods, these young criminals must be made to know the consequences of their behavior. And I think tougher measures i.e. strict punishment and imprisonment will work better for everyone rather than trying to understand them.

The only thing that will deter these kinds of attacks is a combination of better policing i.e. profiling and armed citizens ready and able to use their firearms to protect themselves.

You forgot to add one thing: ready, able, and willing to use their firearms.

As members of a Christian, more polite society, we've been taught not to harm our fellow man. That translates into a hesitation to pull the trigger at the moment of truth. As it was so eloquently said in "Full Metal Jacket":

Your rifle is only a tool. It is the hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong, you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead...

Through either reasoning with them (doomed to failure) or tougher methods, these young criminals must be made to know the consequences of their behavior. And I think tougher measures i.e. strict punishment and imprisonment will work better for everyone rather than trying to understand them.

Drift, I firmly believe we are long since past that point. Only the oft-repeated sight of their homies' bloating bodies in the gutter, or swinging from lampposts with signs saying "Looter" and "Rapist", will even begin to sink into their minds. Anything less will cost lives: theirs, and ours.