Simmer in the city (and Delco, too)

The numbers are just staggering.

And just as frightening.

Over the weekend, the period from Friday to Sunday, police report 32 people were shot on the streets of Philadelphia. Six of them proved fatal. A seventh person died in a stabbing.

Delaware County was not immune. Gunshots rang out on a basketball court in Darby Township. Two people were wounded.

Summer is all of one week old. Two Delaware County towns, Darby Borough and Darby Township, have enacted strict curfews and states of emergency in an attempt to quell street violence.

Last week, in announcing a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Obama indicated he was time to stop nation-building overseas and focus on nation-building at home.

Maybe instead of the wars we’re fighting abroad, we can also focus on the war being waged on the streets of our towns and cities.

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