{"id":12640,"date":"2020-09-26T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:59:55","slug":"civilization-requires-collective-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/civilization-requires-collective-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization Requires Collective Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least radical pullbacks, of the police. So-called crime experts often concurred. So some city governments ignored public warnings and diminished their police presence despite a sharp rise in crime in many cities. Looting and arson were often ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you call 911 in a large American city, there is no guarantee that anyone will answer promptly and send out police to aid the endangered. So gun sales have soared. Some people who never before owned weapons, or who even opposed the use of firearms, are now terrified to remain unarmed. Self-protection often outweighs abstract ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a recent Gallup poll, most black Americans favor maintaining or increasing police presence. Often, city officials who support cutting back on law enforcement still expect their own homes and property to be constantly policed. The same is often true of activist elites who live far from the inner city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Large swaths of the American West are now charred by out-of-control wildfires. Some governors and many federal bureaucrats blame the conflagrations on climate change. But those who actually live within forests, or on mountains and foothills, that are historically vulnerable to wildfires know that the epic droughts of 2013\u201315 killed or dried out millions of acres of trees and vegetation.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/coronavirus-policing-wildfires-effective-response-requires-collective-common-sense\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review After&nbsp;the summer protests and rioting in many large cities, activists demanded a defunding, or at least radical pullbacks, of the police. So-called crime experts often concurred. So some city governments ignored public warnings and diminished their police presence despite a sharp rise in crime in many cities. Looting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12600,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/silence-about-the-violence\/","url_meta":{"origin":12640,"position":0},"title":"Silence About the Violence","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It\u00a0is not just conservatives at the recent Republican National Convention who wonder why the Democratic Party and its media appendages have not without qualification decried the looting, arson, violence, and occasional killing that have swept the nation\u2019s cities. 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