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David Cole, Our Romance With Guns
“Gun homicide is so routine that many do not even warrant a local news story. But it is the decidedly nonglamorous, quotidian infliction of death and serious injury by gun owners that deserves our focused and sustained attention.”
Photo: New York City, 1935 (Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos)

“And politicians’ cowardice in the face of the NRA is not the only obstacle to meaningful reform; an even greater hurdle lies in the fact that we seem willing to accept an intolerable situation as long as the victims are, for the most part, young black and Hispanic men.”
This is an important article; I only wish there were more of a discussion of the social conditions that contribute to our cities’ soaring homicide rates. This is why I’m ever grateful for the Chicago Reader’s Steve Bogira
FILM: The Interrupters

David Cole, Our Romance With Guns

“Gun homicide is so routine that many do not even warrant a local news story. But it is the decidedly nonglamorous, quotidian infliction of death and serious injury by gun owners that deserves our focused and sustained attention.”

Photo: New York City, 1935 (Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos)

“And politicians’ cowardice in the face of the NRA is not the only obstacle to meaningful reform; an even greater hurdle lies in the fact that we seem willing to accept an intolerable situation as long as the victims are, for the most part, young black and Hispanic men.”

This is an important article; I only wish there were more of a discussion of the social conditions that contribute to our cities’ soaring homicide rates. This is why I’m ever grateful for the Chicago Reader’s Steve Bogira

FILM: The Interrupters