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What Can Cure America’s Epidemic of Gun Violence?
Gun control? Censorship? Mental health care?
FBI Director Christopher Wray doesn’t normally give television interviews. He doesn’t frequent the Sunday morning talk-show circuit, he isn’t a regular guest beloved of late night comedy hosts. He probably hasn’t met Oprah.
That Mr. Wray broke his relative radio silence in April to sit down with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes is perhaps indicative of the current sociopolitical and cultural climate in America.
In other words: Summer’s here, and it’s going to be a hot one.
Crime is up- as in way, way up. From Seattle to Chicago to Washington, D.C., violent crime is swelling shockingly, ballooning like a blimp. And, not only is it going up, it’s spreading out.
Chicago has been grappling with high rates of crime for decades; there is something new about crime in the Windy City now.
Thieves are more brazen than ever before, requiring Chicago’s downtown drawbridges to be drawn against roving bands of thieves hitting the Magnificent Mile en force, and on one memorable occasion dumping emptied out cash registers on the lawn of the Missouri Governor’s mansion.
Killers are getting much bolder, too; shooting into a crowded street and hitting 11 people, killing 2. Someone…