Which elephant, you say? Why, the elephant that’s always there. The elephant of race. It was the assassination of John F. Kennedy that first brought liberals’ long-running distaste/discomfort/hatred of guns to the fore. However, it was the race riots of the sixties, and the dramatic increase in violent street crime among young black men that…
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The Politics of Dead Children
I wish I had a better headline, but the truth this week is not pretty. I don’t know how many children die by accident every day—I’m sure it’s more than twenty—but when death is heaped on us like this it’s impossible not to stagger under the load. I’m one of those liberals who regard gun…