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[quote=Anonymous]As someone who lives in one of these neighborhoods OP is talking about, so many of you are missing the point entirely.

Even if it was legal to deploy the National Guard to police civilians, even if they were trained as police and not soldiers, it wouldn't do much at all to stop the violence.

They can't be everywhere at once, and they certainly can't be in people's private homes. People will just wait till their backs are turned or they're on a different block to start shooting. They'll do it in someone's house at a private party. Or they'll just keep doing it right out in the open. You think the people who go around shooting people in broad daylight care about being arrested? Talk to any of them and they'll tell you, they don't expect to make it to old age, they're going to get got by a rival crew or the cops. One guy in my neighborhood was talking about why the murder rate was increasing so much in 2020 and he said "we all know we're gonna die, we're just taking care of our beefs now so we can kill them before the 'Rona does."

10,000 or even 100,000 National Guard or cops isn't going to fix anything, the only way is to address the underlying causes - poverty, lack of education, lack of parental involvement that contribute to these situations where people have no compunctions about killing each other because they have no hope and nothing to lose.   [/quote]

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