It pains us to say that yes, as residents of Springfield, we live in that kind of town.

Unfortunately, this is the case for many people, and not just in Springfield; The failure we are about to describe is not attributable to the residents of this great city, but to those who publicly demonstrate their murderous intentions, without regard for the safety of others.

We saw last week that this is a town where a grandmother can receiving a phone call from a distraught child sitting in a car that someone has just hit with bullets. “They were panicking and saying, ‘Grandma, help us, help us,'” the grandmother recalled the next day.