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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

Legal assaults on Illinois’ sensible new gun law are a travesty

Chicago police work the scene where five people were shot, two fatally in an apartment in the 7800 block of South Exchange Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood on Monday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time)

When a gunman with a weapon of war stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and gunned down 20 small children and six adults, many people thought our nation might finally come to its senses about gun violence.

But, no. Here we are, a decade later, and cold-blooded gunslingers continue to burst into cherished places of safety and kill and maim as many people as they can.

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