I have been thinking about guns and the new gun laws, with the recent death of those 26 people in Newtown, CT and a school lock down at my children's school. Things like this really bring the feelings of losing my children to the surface.
The day of the Newtown, CT shooting I was working really hard on a couple of tasks, after the news reported that there was a shooting at an elementary school it took all my power not to go to my kids school and give my kids a kiss. That day was one of the days that I lost all functionality. I cried for the children, I cried for the parents and I felt my own pain. It was sharp and fresh in my heart.
It did not come to my mind that we should take away guns. It came to my mind that we have to help people like this. As I know the hard way it is not a gun that takes a child away. It is not a gun that takes a mom away. It is not a gun that takes a father away. Guns are not the problem, they do not kill people. It is the person behind the gun that kills people.
Every person that is in a good mental place knows that a gun is used to hunt, used for target practice or even to protect yourself from an intruder. If guns are used in an appropriate manner deaths are unlikely to happen.
When you are mentally unstable you do not need a weapon to kill a person.
