With high-schoolers from across the area getting ready to hit Chicago’s streets this week and on March 24 to demand sensible gun laws, the time has come for me to give these youngsters some avuncular advice and history lessons.
In my defense, I voted for none of them.
“We want sensible gun laws,” says Toomey. “But eventually, we want to address the root of the problems—cycles of poverty and mental illness.”
In defense of the aldermen, that budget vote came on the eve of the ward redistricting. Eager to win a unanimous vote on his first budget, the mayor let the aldermen know that if they didn’t vote yes—clinic closings and all—he might redraw them out of their wards.
Have you never noticed that every time the Republicans kill good or pass bad legislation (like the recent federal tax break for the superrich), they say they’re doing it for small businesses?
Yes, but about that gun dealer bill?
