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Save LA’s libraries from violent vagrants

Public libraries are among the most important resources in any town.

You can earn an entire education in a library — almost free of charge.

When Matt Damon’s character in “Good Will Hunting” taunts a pompous Harvard graduate student, he tells him: “You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a … education you coulda’ got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.” (Expletive excluded.)

Many libraries also provide classes for the young, lectures for the elderly, gallery spaces for aspiring artists, and performance stages for local stars.

So it is disturbing to see that so many of California’s libraries have essentially become homeless day care centers.

As The California Post reports, our public libraries have become “no-go zones” in which vagrants sleep all day, trash........

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