WE NEED A GUN VIOLENCE “MARSHALL PLAN”
By Curtis Jones | thephiladelphiacitizen.orgI couldn’t sleep last night trying to dissect all of the causes for the pandemic-level rise in gun violence in Philadelphia. It is a multi-pronged problem that will require an all-hands-on-deck solution. This national problem shocked Overbrook Park, an otherwise peaceful neighborhood in my district, with a shootout that resulted in two deaths, including that of a 16-year-old boy who had his whole life ahead of him.No neighborhood should consider this normal—or acceptable. The opioid crisis […]