 Think about a world in which we did nothing about this crisis, when we fell prey to the cynicism, negativity, and the rhetoric, and just rolled over and said it was simply unfixable. The same, by the way, is true of the red state approach to crime. They couldn't be more divorced from reality. Their entire crime agenda narrative is about diversion and distraction. They create fear and division. Meanwhile, people are gunned down at higher rates in Republican states than in Democratic states.