Yeah, um. I own a gun (locked in a safe with the bullets not in it but also in the safe) and while I don't hunt, I'm fine with it in theory as long as you're not just killing animals for a head on your wall or whatever. I know how to fire the gun and have practiced with it but would probably never use it unless there was a zombie apocalypse or something.

I am fine with background checks, enforcement, and getting rid of open carry. My guess is that none of those things would have helped in this particular situation (Marysville) but I have yet to hear a good reason we need open carry.

What I don't get is the psychology behind it. Why didn't this happen when I was a kid? People owned guns; there weren't a ton of gun control laws as far as I'm aware (I grew up in the South and you have been able to open carry here all my life, not that I have ever seen many people do it). What the hell is happening?