“Now that Chicago is finally getting a handle on gun violence, an NRA-affiliated group called the Armed Citizen Project wants to mess things up by handing out free shotguns here.” That’s Edward McClelland’s opening salvo in Group Wants To Give Shotguns to Single Moms [via nbc.chicago.com]. Mind you it is an editorial. So I guess it’s OK for Eddy to claim that Chicago is successfully addressing its status as the murder capital of the United States (500 firearms-related homicides last year) without providing supporting evidence. In the sense that an editorial gives a writer the freedom to make shit up without blowback. Like . . .