Increased educational opportunies mean nothing if all that is being taught is long term political indoctrination. And what employer will hire someone who is unprepared, with no marketable skill set?
And he also omitted the most important factor of all: individual imitative and the acceptance of responsibility for one's own lot in life.
Available jobs mean nothing if you're not willing to get up and go to work.
I agree with you by the way — your comment was not up yet when I posted below — there are a few issues.
However in terms of something palatable to some liberals, the full truth would make them run, so I forgive him. (I also think he is carefully skirting issues like the purpose of a well-armed populace also being to oppose despotic government — just unpalatable to the liberal fascists.)
When he talks about fixing social problems as a way of curbing violence, he really is saying that violent subsets of the population are violent and need to change — basically throwing their failures like “the war on poverty” right in their faces.
Minneapolis spends 23k per student and DC more than that.
They should be the smartest, safest kids in the world.