[GunLawyer001]

I'll help to bail out the sinking boat, as soon as everyone else stops drilling holes in the bottom.

Too many people are enablers for the criminals. Soft judges, liberal newspapers and TV stations that editorialize and slant the news so as not to offend their market, and most importantly a culture that excuses crimes and blames "racism" for all evils. Schools that divorce "self image" from who the little bastards are and what they do (for example, I think that a pregnant illiterate 14 year old girl with a criminal record should feel bad about herself, as should whoever knocked her up.) A Welfare system that rewards helplessness and is indifferent to fraud.

I can't raise your kids. I can't even discipline your kids when they run and scream and throw things near me at the supermarket. I can't control what propaganda the schools pump into these little robots. I can't force the judges to impose long sentences, or the legislators to mandate them. I can't force society to treat 15 year old career criminals like the thugs that they are, or punish a 12 year old murderer as though he killed somebody.

Washington, DC spends a huge amount of money per pupil, and has the worst results, so it isn't just a matter of pouring money into the cesspool.

Since I have no power to change the behavior of the criminals who infest the city, exactly what is my obligation to fix their problems?

BTW, no city or town is allowed to exclude the poor, there's a lot of case law on this. Judges routinely mandate low-income housing as part of any city plan. Philadelphia does provide some jobs for non-resident commuters, who pay the city wage tax but don't get to vote and don't consume much in the way of city services. THAT is what caused the American Revolution, taxation without representation