I live next door in “lovely” Eastside Tacoma and work in a sort of private law enforcement capacity.

Reading your story, at first, I was afraid it was going to turn into an anti-2nd Amendment argument from an emotional position. The Jesuit priests that taught me in college would have said it was a logical fallacy.

Hey Emily: I know exactly what you’re talking about, having covered courts and cops for years. Murders, triple murders, murders of babies and toddlers and entire families. Fathers shooting their children in the head and setting them on fire. Babies tortured before they were eventually killed by their parents. Children dying in accidents on Christmas…

Let’s get rid of $100 bills — they are for crooks only

You pay for a cup of coffee with your smartphone. McDonald’s will let you pay for a cup of tea with a credit card. Increasingly, people pay their bills online.