Tribute to Charpel “Chip” Jahnke

My older brother, Chip, was killed on the streets of Chicago in January of 1986. He was working on a street crew for Peoples Energy of Chicago. He was gunned down by an errant bullet fired by a youth involved in a neighborhood quarrel. He left behind his wife and three children, his mother, three brothers and a sister. Guns of any sort, be they handguns or assault weapons of mass destruction, escalate volatile situations into lethal ones such as the circumstances that killed my brother. America leads the world in deaths by guns. Let’s make sensible gun control laws to stop this carnage.