February 15, 2018      3:49 PM

Smith: Guns & Politics, The Great American Misfire

From the Left: QR’s Liberal Columnist Glenn W. Smith argues that money has stifled a meaningful conversation on guns in American life, and on other issues as well

Let’s talk about guns, beginning with a couple of stories. When I was a teenager, our home in Houston was burgled one night as we slept. My mother’s purse was taken from the dresser in my parents’ bedroom. All of us slept through the intrusion.

When a policeman came the following morning to take a report, my father decided to sell the officer his .357 pistol. I’ll never forget Dad’s words. “It was probably some neighborhood kid we know, and I might have shot him over a purse,” he said.

Second story.

The full column by Glenn W. Smith is in the R&D Department.

By Glenn W. Smith

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