God bless Father Pfleger for being on hand to console the grieving mother over the murder of her son outside a South Side community center.

And our condolences to him on having no reason to bus kids and mothers down to the State of Illinois building to protest inaction on new gun controls to go with unenforceable gun controls already in place. 

He would have to protest against easy accessibility to lethal two-by-fours.

He did manage something quotable, however:

“No longer should our children be living in this kind of fear,” said the Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina’s Church. “It’s time to forego guns and two-by-fours and have that stop being the way we treat and handle each other.”

Note he said “forego,” not “ban.” Nothing profound there, but enough to head off a new slogan, “Two-by-fours don’t kill, people do.”