Tag: guns

The issue is guns… and prejudice… and radicalism

Why can’t it be about each of those things? Inevitably, too many have forgotten to mourn with those who mourn. Instead they have moved directly into the politicization. So, first, mourn. * * * Keep...

/ June 14, 2016

Unexplainable

Newtown, Aurora, Charleston, San Bernardino, Fort Hood—now, Kalamazoo. It’s surreal to think that next time the president or a pastor laments forlornly over the not-so-little list of American gun tragedies, my hometown could be there. A...

/ February 21, 2016

Vultures are circling Chicago now

“Welcome to the Wild West!” some say. “We’re safer,” say others. And there will be lots of firing back and forth of arguments for and against Chicago’s concealed carry law. * * * The law...

/ January 6, 2014