The question: How will Kathryn Steinle’s death push us forward?
When it was announced that the parents of Kathryn Steinle, the woman fatally shot on the Embarcadero on July 1, were going to appear on Bill O’Reilly’s national news show Monday night, it was hard to imagine what they were going to say.
[...] the Pleasanton couple didn’t say we need to tighten the borders or crack down on immigrants who are here illegally.
[...] what they wanted, like any parent, is that their daughter, Kate, be remembered — that the vivacious 32-year-old woman might have a legacy.
[...] I suppose it is also to be expected that Fox and O’Reilly used the moment as a political wedge for a larger agenda of complaints about lax immigration policy, spineless government and lack of action.
O’Reilly stressed more than once that the penalty would be “mandatory,” so there would be no well-intentioned backtracking by liberals.
The idea, made up in a TV studio, is a Fox fantasy that plays perfectly to the idea that there’s an easy fix for all these matters if we’d just stop with all the sympathy and violins and show a little good old-fashioned discipline.
[...] nothing really happens until there’s a face, a person and a tragedy.
Taking down the offensive Confederate flag at South Carolina’s State House has been debated for decades.
[...] he told a reporter, he shot her; then said he was going to plead not guilty.
There’s no doubting that this is a national story — it’s where it goes from here that will make the difference.
[...] San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who has done some O’Reilly-like blustering himself, is going to have to confront his stubborn refusal to contact immigration officials who asked to be notified when Lopez-Sanchez was released.
Surely someone is going to mention the problem of a country where guns are so plentiful that a confused drifter like Lopez-Sanchez could find one on the street (according to his story) wrapped in a T-shirt.