Stand by Second Amendment but don't deny damage guns can cause

When I was a boy two brothers lived on our block and we ran together every weekend. Ball in the street, made-up games, War! Then one day they were gone. My buddy said their father had lost his job at the tire factory and taken his own life in the basement with a gun the family owned. That was a gun death in America. Quiet street, good schools. In all my years arguing guns, a death like that almost never came up. Our children are back in school, and September is Suicide Prevention Month. …