"Cars can be weapons, and the ubiquity of guns and cars in our society means a single crazy person is always going to be able to do huge amounts of damage if they want to. The only way to stop that is to limit them, which nobody in power seems to want to do."
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/02/summer-bummer-annual-car-free-street-event-squeezed-in-nypd-overkill
The War on Cars
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