Earlier this week, while we were paying a lot of attention to the presidential primary race, many of the big shots in Detroit turned out for a babys funeral. Delric Waymon Miller died when a gunman riddled his home with bullets from an AK-47. That was, by the way, the standard assault rifle used by our ancient enemy, the old Soviet Union. The USSR is as dead as a dinosaur, but its weapons are still killing Americans. The police havent caught whoever did it, but they think the house was shot up because of a fight over who got to sit where at a baby shower. Even the late Kurt Vonnegut couldnt make that up. An argument at a baby shower meant a nine-month old baby had to die. A lot of people are dying in Detroit this year, way more than last year, almost all as a result of guns. Few would normally notice. If a gang member gets popped, as they say, by another gang member, it might mean a couple paragraphs in one of the Detroit papers, which in any event are now delivered only three days a
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