Ya think it's easy?

“Puppies who are not house-trained poop everywhere.”

Most of the personal safety you have known in your life owes to the fathering skills of people born before you: You and virtually everyone else continually effect the self-restraint you mastered as toddlers, and, in neglected consequence, peace and plenty abound.

What about people less masterful at self-restraint? They are constrained by their fear of the future consequences of their actions: Violent retaliation and/or arrest and incarceration.

The anti-Ant crime – and simple ugly malice – we are seeing right now is the further fruit of underpolicing the underfathered.

The police were never the cause of your safety in the first place, but now they cannot even deter bad behavior. Respond accordingly.

In other news:

The Daily Mail: California nightmare: How high taxes, rampant crime, suffocating wokery, streets littered with homeless addicts, and years of liberal policies are blamed for ruining the Golden State… as thousands of families flee to Republican Texas and Florida.

Reason: The California Exodus Is Real.

PJ Media: ‘The Wheels Are Coming Off.’ Deeper Cuts to Austin Police Are on the Way in Mayor Adler’s ‘Reimagining’.

The Conversation: Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office.

The American Mind: Baby Bust.