The cost of ignorance can be quite high—deadly, in fact.
If you doubt that, consider what is happening in Montgomery, where a convergence of several types of ignorance is driving up violence and simultaneously eliminating any meaningful response to it.
To be clear, Montgomery is not Alabama’s most violent or deadly city. Depending on the day, it’s not even in the top five, sometimes outside of the top 10. But it continues to draw the attention of lawmakers, media and politicos who have a vested interest—one way or another—in portraying Alabama’s capital as a crime-ridden hellscape where lawlessness runs unchecked and good people are cowering in fear…