This author clearly never grew up on the streets of New Jersey and knows nothing about human nature. If you coddle the Left, they get stronger. If you retaliate hard, they wither and withdraw. This is not a cricket match.
Hear, Hear! Been there! My mother was recently “shocked” when street festival turned into a gunfight in Trenton. I told her I was shocked that it doesn’t happen more often, which is why I left that Scheisse hole decades ago. Ignorance is not bliss!