John W. Fountain
I see the wicked spreading itself like a green bay tree. But are my eyes too clouded by endless tears to see the righteous?
I see killers. But where are the Christians? I see the slayers. But where are the pray-ers? Where is that “old ship of Zion” whose spiritual songs once soothed our souls, led us down the path to being made whole?
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I hear the wail of mourning mothers. They rise above the cacophony of gunfire and chaos, where children at play run for cover. Where brother takes murderous aim against brother. In a city where we seem numb to the slaying of each other.
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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot used Joe Biden’s trip to Illinois today to press the president on “common sense gun control” as the city’s violent crime rate has been soaring in recent weeks, after an already turbulent 2020. It turns out Lightfoot only spoke with Biden for a couple of moments before the president entered Marine One and flew off to an event promoting infrastructure in Crystal Lake, Illinois, but she got her photo op, which was really what this was all about.
It’s not Biden, after all, that’s preventing gun control legislation from passing in Congress. It’s the fact that it can’t get 60 votes in the Senate, and Democrats can’t get 50 votes to kill the filibuster. When it comes to Biden’s executive actions, it’s hard to believe that Lightfoot could find much to complain about; Biden’s already trying to broadly redefine firearms regulations to allow for backdoor gun bans of home-built guns and AR-style pistols without a vote in