BOB MCMANUS: It’s ridiculously hard to put people in jail in NYC. “Police say Edison Cruz of the Bronx has been trying hard to go to jail, which is not easy to do in New York City. He kept getting arrested and they kept letting him go and, so really, what’s an up-and-coming convict to do?”

Plus: “There is no hoarier cliché in the American conversation than ‘guns don’t kill, people do.’ But its depressing ubiquity doesn’t make it any less true. Thus, no gun-violence policy is going to succeed if it isn’t focused as squarely on criminals as it is on weapons.”