BLOOMBERG FOUNDATION pushing gun control in Memphis? “Memphis’ $4.8 million will be used to revive areas of the city cut off by highway construction and approach handgun violence as a public health crisis, according to Mayor A C Wharton. Other recipients of grants are the mayors of Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans and Louisville, Ky.”

“Handgun violence” isn’t a public-health crisis. It’s a criminal-behavior crisis. The public health people need to be addressing things within their area of expertise, like bedbugs – how ya doin’ on that one, Mayor Bloomberg? — or maybe that incurable strain of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.