That Instant

you realize guns are the problem and the big "and" in the equation may also be the lack of physical harm and being able to identify with physical pain.  Emotional pain is very hard to describe and very very difficult to relate.  Physical pain is universal and grounds to the primal circuit.  Everyone understands.  Emotional or mental pain, few will understand or be able to identify with you without deep and lengthy contact.  Anyone can fire a gun.  Many fewer can speak.  Fewer still can converse.  The problem is there.

Everyone gets in a tiff about gun control.  Fine.  If you are not willing to attack and control it from the top, at least allow people to begin walking at the foundation.  I don't know if the previous sentence ends with a question mark or a period.  Violence and communication can be quite the self reciprocating machine and it's something else to be inside of it and hoping someone would stick a bar into the spokes of the wheel.