Regardless of how you feel about last week’s Supreme Court ruling on abortion, one thing we can all agree on is The Simpsons made this funnier years ago.

I’ve previously posited that we all been feeling like Michael Duncan in The Green Mile the past couple years. Loyal Scaiaholics will also recall I discussed abortion with members of the Texas Supreme Court this spring. Regardless of whether you believe justices did the right thing or are using personal beliefs to “legislate from the bench,” the editorial board at 1 Scaianalysis Esplanade wants to believe justices when they say their job is to interpret the law so the people can decide whether they want to change it.

But after the decision came down, the federal building downtown went straight to work boarding up windows and installing fencing in case protests got out of control.

We’ve rocketed right past Michael Clarke Duncan, though, and moved on to other films. In the documentary, The First Purge, we learned the majority of us are pragmatic and want what’s best for our culture. A small percentage of people [mainly those on Staten Island] can do a lot of damage, grab headlines and lead to a mob mentality, setting the stage for the rest of the Purge franchise.

The protest in Dallas Friday night didn’t get out of control. You know what got out of control? Me shoving my microphone in people’s face to ask how they feel about fencing.

One woman said it’s sad, but she points out that Dallas Police and Homeland Security might have been more visible, but no one was saying, “Don’t you protest.” Everyone was just saying, “Hey, maybe if you protest, don’t start a riot like last time.” Another gentleman echoed the message, saying if you get violent, people will pay attention to the riot instead of the original cause you were protesting.

The first woman said she was glad to see people with different ideas and opinions being allowed to hold demonstrations while still keeping people from blowing anything up.

We may seem divided now, but we shouldn’t lose hope.

You can air your grievances at the ballot box, which 82% of you did not do in the Texas primary. I feel like more than 18% of us are arguing on Facebook about politics.

In doing so, we can avoid turning this from the Green Mile to the Purge to a Planet of the Apes situation.

At the risk of editorializing, renouncing your citizenship seems like a bit much. After all, these different backgrounds and perspectives have led to innovations the Founding Fathers would never have imagined. Tacos raining from the sky, for instance.