Oh, so wild are the politics of campaigning for president. If you’ve had enough of it by now, you might turn your attention to the US Supreme Court and some good news you may be missing. The court has declared it will not rule, or even consider, a request by the national gun lobby to overturn a gun control law passed by the Illinois General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Pritzker. It’s a good and tough law prohibiting the manufacture, advertising, and selling or buying a military style rifle anywhere in Illinois, like an AR-15 rifle, for example, that’s now a popular weapon for mass murder. The law was passed in response to the mass murder during the July 4th parade in Highland Park. Six people were killed, 30 people wounded. Since then, our gun control law has been condemned by gun lobbyists, including the sheriffs of several counties in Illinois announcing they will not enforce the law. Meanwhile, during the recent July 4th weekend in Chicago, eight people were shot dead, six wounded. In the weekend before that, in Chicago, 12 shot dead, 60 wounded, Nationwide, on July 4th, 238 shot dead, 618 wounded. Shocking. Yes. Sickening. Yes. Hard to believe. Yes. Hard even to imagine. No. Because we’re getting used to it. Too used to it.

Walter Jacobson gives his Perspective: