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I don't disagree that people should keep cooler heads all around. Perhaps it's the miserable humid heat that drives all that behavior (and it's been observed all around the world that hot weather is correlated with more murders).

Your two anecdotes, by the way, show no evidence that the people involved were of different races.



point taken, there's definitely racism, anti-Asian violence, militias and Proud Boys and idiots in the North. The totality of circumstances and history and socioeconomics and state-sponsored nonsense and fundamentalist nonsense and gun culture just hits a little different in the South.




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