Another day in America & more people dead from guns. How many deaths did the latest spate of shootings prevent? Gun people get highly technical (e.g., “‘AR’ don’t stand for no ‘assault rifle’, dumbass”) & you’d think they’d have calculated a coefficient. But Jethro’s School 1/4

of Brain Surgery, Double-Ought Spyin’ & Fry Cookery (a/k/a 3rd grade) is tough. In undergrad I stalled guns. During a meeting of faculty chairs, deans & student leaders at DePauw University in 1976 (I was Student Body President), one of the deans, as an aside, said campus police 2/4

wanted to be armed. I asked, “Why the hell do they need guns!?” Contrary to NRA messaging, no campus carnage ensued, although at a kegger at SNu some of us had to duck as a guy shot at bottles on his book shelf & didn’t realize people were in the hallway outside his room. On a 3/4

lighter note, Matt Hills, who won the GOP primary for City-County Council District 2 last Tuesday was angry I had run against him. Sore winners are far worse than sore losers. There was a reason the Framers of the Constitution opposed standing armies. Hills should chill. 4/4