I agree that if it goes there, they will most likely kill a whole lot of innocent folks just sitting in their homes. Rape, murder, loot and burn, it’s what they do for fun.
As for the street gangs, I have to disagree. They don’t sell dope because they want too. They sell dope to make money, to buy guns, to give them more power and take more territory through violence or fear of violence.
If this goes south, more south I should say, then they won’t need the corner boys selling 5-10 dollar bags, they’ll just take whatever they want and control more territory through fear and murder. Look how easy Chop was to establish, entire city blocks and that was with no deaths to do it. Plenty of gang leaders out there would love the chance to be warlords like their uncles back home.
True, but CHOP isn't exactly the best comparison. That was a bunch of greasy hippies cordoning off a street and the local government playing
along. IF there were bands of armed gangs there it wouldn't have ended the way that it did. CHOP ended up being much ado about nothing.
There are places in Brockton that are far scarier than CHOP ever was.
I get your point, though. The thing is, real gangs want revenue. Drugs is revenue bearing activity, the most profitable thing a criminal can do 9 out of 10 times. Why do you think Chicago has, on average, way more shootings and violence than Detroit does? Because Detroit got bombed out to the point where they basically shat where they ate; the revenue $ for drugs in Detroit is likely exponentially worse than it is in Chicago, where you have wealthy drug users on one end and ghetto bangers selling them shit from the shit part of town, etc. DC is a great analog, too. Tons of wealthy types sniffing coke or whatever, and dealers on the other side of town making bank off them,
etc. Drugs is huge, profitable business. Yes, some of those gangs want territory, but what do you think the leadership of those orgs wants? They want the $$$$....
ETA: Maybe I'm out of touch on this- but how many Bloods, Crips, MS13, etc.... guys have been seen hanging out with BLM/Antifa? I look at it more like this... those guys think they are Pablo Escobar smart... "why should I shoot them when I can just sit back and watch them do it for me?" Will these gangs seize territory? Sure.... but they would do it in the wake of the other bullshit. The whole "nature abhors a vacuum" thing. I see that as a sort of a 2nd phase in these moonbat dump cities, a separate issue, even, taking a completely different shape from the first one.
ETA2: The phase 2 thing could also end up breeding a bunch of "even bigger dump cities" in the wake of this stuff. Long term dump cities where the whole city is covered. I wonder how like, the greasy hippies in Portland will like that when their feminist book store gets hit up for protection money...