'Council locked, loaded' - Rochelle Riley
Today's column strikes me as a forum-worthy discussion topic.
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Gary Brown, Kwame Kenyatta, Charles Pugh and James Tate are usually armed. . . . And the Rev. Andre Spivey, pastor of St. Paul AME, said he plans to get his CCW permit before Thanksgiving.
. . . Kenyatta said that members sometimes must ward off irate citizens.
Cockrel won't say if he packs; Jones and Watson don't.
Spivey 'splains:
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" I've talked with several incumbents, and the office presents some challenges. I don't feel I have to use it, but I'll feel more comfortable having it. . . . We're in a different age."
And how do we feel . . . more comfortable or concerned about the message this sends, the image this may reinforce?
Rochelle sees a tough call:"It is quite the conundrum: To carry or not to carry in a city where gun violence is as prevalent as Temptations music, so mundane that children are used to it."
'Fodder for humiliation' - Bill Shea
Comes now Bill Shea, via his blog:
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How long before the national media, talk show hosts and blogosphere use [this] to bludgeon us some more?
The Associated Press distributed a short story based on Riley’s column, which Google News shows was picked up today by the Chicago Tribune. That’s the only one I see outside of Detroit so far. Perhaps it will flame out before the rest of the nation notices.
Otherwise, it feels like fodder for humiliation from across the entire ideological spectrum. And a Jay Leno joke.
Bonus for clicking thru to the Crain's post:
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Let us slide for a moment into a flight of fancy and imagine what sort of guns [5] Detroit journalists might carry.