Tag: dailyprompt-1821

If you could un-invent something, what would it be?

The gun is what I would un-invent.

Trigger warning death -suicide

Guns here in the US cause way too many deaths. Too easily accessible. Too easy to just grab a gun and shoot someone over a minor disagreement. Too many mass shootings, school shootings, domestic violence shootings, very young children grabbing improperly secured guns and shooting themselves or young siblings. My son ( the one whose wife just had twins ) is a police detective. Police get shot by mentally unstable people. When he was doing his police training before he even became an officer he told me as part of his training when he was doing a ride along with another officer and he was there to just observe. One of the saddest cases he told me about was it was over Thanksgiving weekend and the parents had just returned home from visiting family and their 14 year old son didn’t want to go when they returned home they found him on the couch and he had ended it all. Without that gun he wouldn’t have been able to do that .