The Philadelphia Inquirer Monica Yant Kinney column: Who'll stand up to fight city gun violence?(Column)

Byline: Monica Yant Kinney

Jun. 24--"Why be upset about things you can't control? I'm living. You got to go with the flow, you know."

- Chris Pearo, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News driver who was shot last week.

Chris Pearo was cheery for a guy who took a bullet to the neck because two thugs weren't satisfied with the $15 in his wallet.

At least Pearo lived to laugh about being shot while delivering papers at 3:40 a.m. in Southwest Philadelphia last Monday. A few days later, summer started far more somberly across town.

A triple homicide is hardly occasion for a family reunion, but it did prompt three generations of grieving relatives to pull plastic chairs around the freshly hosed-down crime scene …