Guns, Congress, and the will of the people

Like most people who grew up in suburban Boston, I am not a gun person. I've never owned one. I've never even held at handgun. I've never been a member of the NRA. Yet here I am, sitting down to write a column preemptively defending Congress for its coming "failure" to respond to President Obama's most recent call to "do something" in response to the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon and the other tragic mass shootings that

Like most people who grew up in suburban Boston, I am not a gun person. I've never owned one. I've never even held at handgun. I've never been a member of the NRA. Yet here I am, sitting down to write a column preemptively defending Congress for its coming "failure" to respond to President Obama's most recent call to "do something" in response to the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon and the other tragic mass shootings that have become sickeningly common over the past few years. Here…