There was the trauma surgeon who talked of being asked by youngsters worried about getting shot: "If you get a colostomy, is it permanent?" There was the federal prosecutor warning that Philadelphia had become one of the leading cities in the nation for firearms violence — with gun deaths growing every year. There was the mayor pounding a table and expressing his anguish at the failure of lock-'em-up strategies: "We've taken the steps that anti-gun-control advocates... (GunPolicy.org)