You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about Trump's suggestion of sending the National Guard into some of our most crime-ridden cities.

We're going to talk about pushback and changing minds in the transgender debate and some strange comments from Senator Tim Cain. I am happy to report

that we have a lot to get to this week, so please stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week

from the Colson Center for Christian World View. I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street,

president of the Colson Center. John, the first news item I wanted to hit with you today is this new push by the Trump

administration to send the National Guard into some U.S. cities.

Now, they've done it in Washington, D.C., and the early reports are that crime rates have

dramatically declined.

The law is a little bit different about sending them to any other U.S.

city, which are under the authority of the states that they're in, but he has floated the idea of

sending National Guard to Chicago and now to New Orleans as well. My question to you is the argument

behind this seems to be related to something I understand is the broken windows theory.

I think this was a Rudy Giuliani special, which is the idea that when you allow smaller crimes to go unprosecuted,

you encourage more criminal activity generally.

That seems to me to be a worldview question.

Is that the case? And is that what's prompting kind of the increase in criminal activity in some of our big cities? Well, yes, it is an

interesting theory. And it has some merit, particularly in what was seen in New York City, I think in the

90s, I think is primarily where that came from. It's like you make people have a sense of ownership of their own city, of their own space. I think that

is a fascinating way of applying a vision of what it means to be human and our calling primarily

being to take care of things. I remember, you know, when I used to talk to

young men about what it means to be a young man from a biblical worldview, I would often just say,

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