Letter: Take changing gun culture seriously

You had me. Then you wimped out!A great and reasoned opinion piece on taking guns seriously. Until it wasn’t. (“Take guns seriously,” Tribune editorial, Nov. 16.)Saying that universal background checks and prohibitions of semi-automatic weapons are “beyond the realm of political reality” is an excuse as opposed to leading the charge for changing the political, legal and social climate toward guns. Semi-automatic and automatic weapons have become the weapons of mass