The problem is that the left will cry Gun Control and Gun Restrictions while the right will cry we need more God in school and more God at home. This shooting, just like the Orlando shooting, the JFK Airport shooting and the Vegas shooting will be swept under the rug by the end of the month and it'll be as if it never happened. I don't have all the answers. I am not a politician. I don't own a gun. I don't lean left nor right 24/7.

The problem is that a lot of the issues we see with violence in our country is usually traced back to terrible living conditions or treatment. Maybe if we invested more time in mental health, economical health, balance, equality, etc. Maybe that would help reduce the amount of times misguided people or children fill the need to snap and go on a killing spree. Something clearly isn't right and something clearly isn't working. We seem to average a mass shooting now relatively every four to six months.

Now, I know statistically we can all sit here and say that "Out of 340M people, guns are only responsible for 0.02% of our yearly deaths. And how many of those shootings were committed during disputes or in areas known for high crime rates and violence?". I get that. I really, really get that. BUT... as a human being. It's a bitter pill to swallow because it's easy for us to say that and play that card when it's not YOUR family being gunned down. When it's not YOUR child being cut down.

I don't think we'll ever be able to fix this issue until we start having an in depth conversation about society in general. Because that's where it all starts.

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ” - Aristotle

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