Ducks, Newburyport

by Lucy Ellmann

the fact that a judge in Detroit was trying a case where a nine-year-old got hold of his mom’s gun, which she kept in her purse, and the kid had shot himself in the hand, the fact that the mom was arrested, and the judge said nobody needs a gun, nobody, the fact that he said the Second Amendment dates back to the early days in the New World, before there was an official police force to handle things, the fact that he said guns only cause trouble, and he’s eighty and he’s never owned one, the fact that the mom got three years probation, along with the lecture, neglect, reckless endangerment, the fact that Judge Roberson, the fact that that was his name,

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