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I'd be very wary of a President who says he's going to send federal troops into a major city, especially when it's obvious that he has no idea what he's doing. What would the objective be? If the troops are just there to keep order, would they be in place for a month? Three months? A year? Indefinitely?
When did Trump say he was going to send troops? Source.
None of the fedguvs business. Funny how the GOP is all about small govt and adherence to the constitution until they are ones pulling the levers.
If anything need be done at the fed level,Trump should be advocating to end the drug war.
States rights any GOP'ers?
You are kidding, right.
When a state or local government is incapable of promoting the General Welfare of its citizenship, the federal government has always stepped in and taken the reigns.
This was established first, in Southern Reconstruction and carried out several times since.
Name the 100 cities that have more violence than Chicago.
Atlanta, Philadelphia, D.C., Baltimore, Memphis, Miami, and several others have issues worse than Chicago. Even Houston has a higher violent crime rate I believe, but that's in the crazed alt-right Holy Land of Texas, so it gets a pass. Chicago is home to over 2.7 million people - something that gets lost on people because the raw numbers are so shocking. I don't even think Chicago is in the top twenty for violent crime. Regardless, the shootings need to be addressed, but how is the big question. These people don't have educations, don't have stable family lives, and don't have any employment prospects. It's not something you can fix overnight by putting the military on the streets. The second they're gone, the killings will start up again.
I thought it was Obama that was going to declare martial law. I've heard that one for 8 years, yet cheers when Trump threatens it in the first week.
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