A beautiful 8-year-old girl is brutally gunned down in broad daylight by another idiot gangbanger and the usual handwringing by the mayor and police superintendent ensue. Same story, different day, and nothing changes. Justice will be served for her and her family, blah, blah, blah.
So it was with hope that I read Arne Duncan is considering running for mayor of Chicago. As somebody who grew up in Chicago and has worked with Chicago’s beleaguered youth, I think Duncan has a real sense of the urgent need for change in how we address the city’s out-of-control gun violence.
