Friday, December 14, 2012  Guns (Redux)  Back in August, while
vacationing at Cape Cod with family, I started writing about
kids and guns. Or, more to the point, parenting and guns. I
noodled around, trying to talk about how we institute sane gun
policy with our child, because kids, especially boys, like to
play with toy guns.  Now, on December 14, 2012, as I sit on the
couch with my child while he eats Extra Cheesy Cheddar Bunnies
and watches “Wonder Pets,” that essay sits unfinished in my
queue, and 20 children and 7 adults have been slaughtered in
Newtown, Connecticut by a man with guns.  On Tuesday, a man with
guns killed two people at a shopping mall in Oregon. Here in
Minnesota last week, a man shot his granddaughter because he
thought she was an intruder. (She lived.) On Thanksgiving, again
in Minnesota, a man shot and then executed two teenagers who he
says broke into his home. I don’t need to go any further back in
time, do I?  Because America has reached the point where
headlines such as this are ne