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No. 1, I think that we put we have to come together on some com- ADVERTISING COVER Denis Prisk our first responders in a very unattainable monsense and middle ground approaches, [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 position. If they go to, say, a sporting venue but we shouldn’t be pitting the sportsmen Contributors: Justin Bilicki, Bill Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom on an active shooter and everybody at that against law enforcement or against trying ART Helma, Terry Link, Kyle Melinn, Dennis Preston, Paul Wozniak, Amanda Harrell-Seyburn, Ute Von Der Heyden, Judy Winter, Shawn Parker venue has been authorized to carry a weap- to lessen firearm violence in our country Delivery drivers: Abdulmahdi Al-Rabiah, Dave Fisher, Karen on — that’s a very because we all have a stake in it. Navarra, Noelle Navarra, Brent Robison, Steve Stevens DEAR REO TOWN by RACHEL HARPER Interns: Darby Vermeulen, Hanna Scott, Dylan Sowle, unattainable situation I think we’ve all known people who’ve Justin Anderson, Marisol Dorantes and it’s unfair to our been killed. Certainly, I’ve buried more Editor & Publisher first responders. than my fair share of police officers. I wish Berl Because if you go for no parent or law enforcement agency to CITY PULSE ON THE AIR Schwartz in and somebody is suffer that — these beautiful children that State Representatives Andy Schor and Sam Singh 7 p.m. Wednesdays shooting and 25 peo- were annihilated. I would do anything and April Zeoli, Michigan State University criminal justice professor ple or 100,000 people I would give everything I own if we could Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society are there and they’ve have averted that mentally ill person from of the United States THIS WEEK got guns, it would be walking into the school in Newtown. And near impossible to: I think most Americans would do that. Haddad A) figure out who the So, somewhere we need to put our special real gunman is; and interests and our partisan politics aside and B) I know that in any type of situation like do what’s right for the country. And I think that, a lot of innocent people are going to that, whether crime is up, whether it’s down be injured. — crime is unacceptable. Whether violence I won’t mention cities, but there was is up or down — that’s unacceptable. an active shooter recently on a major city I take no comfort when somebody says, street and I think officers were right there ‘Well, you know what? You had 30,000 when it occurred and nine innocent people people killed last year and you only had were hit with bullets from police shootings. 29.5 this year.’ Well, what about those 29.5? We’re trained in that. So can you imagine Was there anything more we could do to you go into a crowded venue and everybody make the world safer for them? And what in there has a gun and somebody acts up. about the mentally ill person, who is denied I’d rather give the officers a chance to get a second chance at life, that just maybe, had the assailant or the threat and mitigate it as there been an approach to defuse, deesca- fast as they can, rather than having to work late, intervene in that situation, how much through that. That’s one side. better off would the world be, their immedi- And the other side of the argument — ate families be? And so on. and there’s many sides — it kind of angers It is a complicated matter, but I think me when they pit law enforcement against that we need to come together as a people the sportsmen, the hunters. I would sub- and say, ‘We’re going to do everything we mit to you that the hunters and our DNR can to make America safe.’ are the most regulated use of the hand- And that’s not a violation of the Second gun in America, especially in Michigan Amendment, I don’t think. I don’t think it’s here. And I think that if in our everyday a violation of our Constitution. I don’t think lives we applied some of the standards it’s a violation of our pursuit of happiness.