In 2010, I wrote an article entitled Guns: There is Nothing More to Say, but the problem is,in light of recent events, there is something to say.
I live in Colorado and the hatred of guns runs deep through our veins with a root planted at Columbine High School and fertilized with the blood of the Century 16 victims.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are two people who's names are never forgotten. Columbine changed history and all because those kids had access to guns. It's true that they would have been able to still kill people as they so obviously wanted to do, but people like Rachael Scott might have survived if another weapon had been used. The truth is: people kill people but guns make it easier and more common.

Jump ahead to last summer, to Aurora, Colorado: to the Century 16 movie theater and the premier of The Dark Knight Rises. James Holmes is another name we cannot forget here in the Mile High City. A delusional lunatic who set traps in his apartment and killed a six year old girl and many others, who was also seeking psychiatric help, was able to secure himself dozens of magazines and assault weapons and tactical armor. How is this possible? How was he able to get that type of arsenal? Easily thanks to the fourth amendment and lack of control on guns.
As if those events weren't enough. We learn of another school shooting. One that tops Columbine on the list of most heart-wrenching here in Colorado. Newtown, Connecticut suffered far worse than we have and lost far more. Coloradans were subjected to memories of Columbine when we heard of this tragedy a few days before Christmas. My brother is in Kindergarten so this affected my family pretty hard. Again, a mentally sick person was able to get guns and ammo. True the guns were his mother's but she shouldn't of had them if she had a mentally sick child.

My brother, as I stated, is in Kindergarten but he is also autistic. He's gotten into matches, which we quickly disposed of, and could have set our house on fire. He hit his younger sister with a garden hose spout and split her eyebrow. She almost needed stitches. He's very smart. He knows exactly what he does and laughs about it. That lack of compassion simply matures as he gets older and I'm afraid of what might happen if come ten years, he has easy access to guns. The answer to my question of what might happen stares me in the face every time I hear mention of Sandy Hook Elementary, James Holmes, Columbine...

It takes a mentally ill person to kill another. It shows a lack of compassion for human life which is something every normal person has so somehow sick people are getting guns and killing others. From gang fights to mass shootings, to a fighting couple in a suburban area, these guns are causing more harm than good.

The purpose of weapons dates back to the days when man was created. The only type of natural defense that we are born with is our ability to create. We rose to the top of the food chain by creating weapons and fighting for survival but as the years go on and our population grows, there is less need for that basic instinct. What happens to this lost characteristic of our species? It is transferred into the minds of the sick so they kill their own kind.

This is obvious and so is the need for a tougher policy on these weapons. Our President works on a gun policy as I write this but it will only work if the entire nation sees the importance of needing one. As a country, we cannot suffer another tragedy. It tears at our seems and pulls the heart apart. Something has to be done, and quickly.