We’d love for Chattanooga residents to be jumping up and down with excitement over Mayor Tim Kelly’s new “roadmap” for “Ending Gun Violence in Chattanooga.”
We wish we could be confident that it would do just that.
Unfortunately, we worry it’s just more of the same: Give police more tools to fight crime, partner with other agencies and organizations, offer activities for youth and social services for families, and expand education on guns.
Kelly, himself, in announcing the program, acknowledged he hadn’t reinvented the wheel, that his predecessors had taken similar actions.
“There’s really nothing new under the sun in this work,” he said. “I think it’s a question of resourcing it properly and not losing sight.”