No More Guns Over People

I’ve never held a gun, owned a gun, fired a gun, or had the first thing to do with a gun. They aren’t my thing, but they are many people’s thing. That’s fine. I’m not here to pass judgment on anybody for that. But the Columbine shooting happened just a few days after my older daughter was

Gun death city

Chicago’s murder rate for the first months of the year is down, but in one unofficial measure, at least, the city has nothing to brag about. Since the Newtown massacre last year, Slate and @GunDeaths have been crowdsourcing the gun deaths in this country. It’s a wonder that nobody had ever done this before, but then