Gun Society

    We can pull a punch at the last second. We can take back the words we spoke in anger, and we can apologize for mistakes we made during a moment when we were not thinking. But we can never take back a round that is fired from a weapon once we pull the trigger. It will travel out the barrel with incredible speed and velocity until it strikes something that is capable of stopping it. No second chances and no do-overs. Once we pull the trigger, we can only wait to see what it strikes in its path.     The first gun incident I'll share with you is one so tragic, it seems unimaginable. This incident occurred almost a year ago. I'll normally use more recent examples, but this particular one highlights so many points and teaches so many lessons, I couldn't let it go untold.     It was a warm evening, the last one in July of 2021. In the small Oklahoma town of Del City a 16-year-old boy was in the living room of his home handling a loaded firearm. It was get...

Welcome to Gun Society Blog... If you live in America, you now live in a society where guns outnumber people, nearing 400 million nationwide. Americans are killing each other in record numbers. Children are shooting their siblings, their parents and even themselves. Adults are shooting their spouse or significant other, friends and total strangers. While suicide remains the leading cause of all gun related deaths, firearm related injuries are currently the leading cause of death for children up to 19 years old. Traffic related fatalities for juveniles have now taken a back seat to guns. I'm not here to bash guns. They serve a useful purpose in our society. While guns themselves are not the problem, if you couple the huge quantity of guns in private hands with the lack of intelligence, maturity, training and common sense of many armed citizens, the result is the gun violence epidemic we face today.   One of the largest contributing factors of the rising gun crime and death toll...