The mayor is grappling with the same issue as our Olympic dreams drift away.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/915238,CST-NWS-page1edit25.articleWe can't stop trying.
The problem is guns. No, it's not about guns.
Mayor Daley speaks on gun control in March at St. Sabina Church, with the Rev. Michael Pfleger joining him. He has called for a summit at City Hall today to search for solutions to the violence in recent weeks.
(Keith Hale/Sun-Times)
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The problem is bad parents. No, we can't make bad parents good.
The problem is drugs. No, we can't stop the drugs.
The problem is jobs. No, we can't bring back the good jobs.
The problem is our schools. No, we can't ask our schools to solve all the problems that flow from broken families and broken neighborhoods.
But we can't stop trying.
Just three days ago, this newspaper all but begged Chicago to rise up and take action against the bloodshed on our streets, especially the shootings of children. We drove home our point by reversing almost every word on the front page of our Tuesday paper, saying, "We cannot turn our backs." We called for a civic campaign to stem the violence.
We were concerned, we will admit now, that our attention-grabbing front page might be ridiculed by some as a gimmick, a grandstanding way to sell newspapers. But we meant every word when we wrote: "Chicago must confront the carnage."
How can you just ignore something like this in your own back yard?
We do, because there is no easy answer. But to do nothing ?