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have been shot or stabbed, half of them fatally.

Quoted in a recent newspaper article reporting that two innocent bystanders in the New York ghettoes had been killed and five more wounded in the last 48 hours, the mother of one of the wounded says: “I work ten hours a day. … In the morning, I have to leave before my kids do. All I can do is say a prayer, that’s about it. Because you never know if you’re going to come back alive, and you come home and they’re going to be alive. You’ll be in your house and people will be shooting through your damn window. You stick your head out your window, somebody blows your brains out.”

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Alan Reynolds

Alan Reynolds, National Review’s economics editor from 1972 to 1976, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of Income and Wealth.

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have been shot or stabbed, half of them fatally.

Quoted in a recent newspaper article reporting that two innocent bystanders in the New York ghettoes had been killed and five more wounded in the last 48 hours, the mother of one of the wounded says: “I work ten hours a day. … In the morning, I have to leave before my kids do. All I can do is say a prayer, that’s about it. Because you never know if you’re going to come back alive, and you come home and they’re going to be alive. You’ll be in your house and people will be shooting through your damn window. You stick your head out your window, somebody blows your brains out.”