Opinion: ‘No wonder we are so desensitized to the slaughter’
The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington is pictured on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
“We are more armed than other countries, and more permissive about how those arms are stored, carried, and used. Memphis knows this reality more intimately than most cities. Gun violence is not an abstraction here; it is a daily presence.”
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Guest Columns Gun Crime Second AmendmentJack Richbourg
Jack Richbourg is a retired lawyer with 48 years of experience. He is now a lay preacher at the First Presbyterian Church of Somerville, Tennessee. He is a freelance writer and the author of two books. He has a BA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and a Juris Doctor from Memphis State University.
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