This week the national media will descend on Dallas to cover the annual NRA convention at the downtown Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. There will be copious footage of a convention-center floor decorated with the latest and greatest in firearms, including a handgun designed to look like a smartphone. There will be images of protesters and speech makers, both those in favor of stricter gun laws and others who will argue more guns is the only path to a safer society. And there will be live broadcasts of a president and vice president come to pay their respects to their generous campaign contributors.To our out-of-town visitors -- and locals, too -- allow me to add another stop along your stock-footage tour: the Central Congregational Church on Royal Lane, near the Dallas North Tollway. There you will find a striking, somber display that has thus far avoided much local attention, despite its pre-Easter installation and its prominent locale -- next door to the Preston Royal Branch Library and in the heart of Preston Hollow, whose precincts in the midst of this blue county were tinged Trump-red during the 2016 election. Continue reading...
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