New Orleans: why?

Here’s the best analysis I’ve read of why the city was so physically vulnerable, and the reasons behind its current Mad Max state.

I’d like to think – and do think – that in a European city in the same circumstances people would be far more inclined to pull together and help each other; aside from anything else there’d be far fewer guns around to empower the ill-intentioned.

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