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" Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is regularly chaffed hereabouts because of his uncommonly unsuccessful wrestling matches with both English syntax and public rhetoric, which generally tag-team His Honor to no good effect. This scoffing is usually done by smart guys who can&amp;#039;t understand how this guy keeps getting elected against all the best efforts of both Strunk and White. It happens because he knows his city and, last night, in his annual state of the city address, it was very clear what Menino was talking about. The most tragic loss of human potential is when it is lost to violence. Sandy Hook is now seared into our memory. So are Woolson Street and Harlem Street. Wayne LaPierre and the NRA say more guns are the answer. That is crazy! Every victim of gun violence and their families know that&amp;#039;s crazy. Gabriel Clarke&amp;#039;s mother, Shirley, is with us tonight. She knows that&amp;#039;s crazy. After her son was shot, she called for peace. And LaPierre goes on T.V. after Sandy Hook and called for more guns? Any member of Congress who doesn&amp;#039;t vote for gun reforms is saying that she was wrong and he was right. We can&amp;#039;t let that happen. Mayor Bloomberg and I will keep working with almost one thousand mayors and over one million Americans. Life-saving solutions, which have long been within our reach, are now within our grasp. Stand with us on guns and say enough is enough. It&amp;#039;s going to be the mayors \u2014 and people who once were mayors, like Martin O&amp;#039;Malley \u2014 who break the deadlock on guns in this country. They go to the funerals of the children, and of the cops, who wind up at the business end of a profitable and deadly trade that masquerades as an inalienable right. Tom Menino may not be as slick as Michael Bloomberg (or, god knows, anywhere near as rich) but anyone who mistakes his syntax for political savvy will end up with an empty wallet. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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