Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Michael Letts, Laurie Moore
The weekend that was supposed to be a celebration ended Saturday night with a Secret Service agent bleeding on the floor of a Washington hotel, a gunman tackled before he could reach the ballroom, and a president who gave a press conference a few hours later sharp enough to note — with unmistakable precision — that if he'd had his big, beautiful ballroom, none of it would have happened.
Monday on Winn Tucson opened on that. It did not close there. By the time the show ended, the conversation had moved from assassination attempts to body armor to the SAVE Act to Senate leadership to Mark Griffith's mayoral campaign to the Pima County Board of Supervisors' spending ambitions to the moral desert that Smith, Winn, and their guests believe is generating these shooters in the first place.
The thread connecting all of it: a country that is not short on problems or people willing to name them — but that is dangerously short on leaders willing to solve them.
