Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Amy Schumer Can Take On Guns Without a Senate Sidekick

If she weren't teaming up with a politician, she might make some progress.

August 3, 2015 at 6:30 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

Sorry, Chuck. This one's for Cousin Amy.
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It's great that comedian Amy Schumer is taking up the challenge of working for reasonable gun laws. It's too bad that she's doing it with her cousin, Senator Charles Schumer.

Schumer comes to the issue via the same path that so many others, including James and Sarah Brady and former Representative Gabrielle Giffords, traveled before her: tragedy. "Trainwreck," the comedy in which Schumer stars, was playing in the Louisiana movie theater in which John Russell Houser shot 11 people last month, killing two women and himself.