WEARING ORANGE
Today people are wearing orange around the country to take a stand against gun violence. I guess it would be only natural that someone may ask me today what my position was on the topic. I thought on it before I replied and I don't feel Mike died by gun violence. If anyone should be able to own weapons it should be a highly trained veteran with 20 years of experience and respect for the weapon. His job afterall, as he would constantly tell me was that of a Rifleman. "A Marines first job is a rifleman..." He had up until the point he died never been irresponsible with a weapon. He'd never joked around with it. He had never threatened me or the kids with it prior. It had never come out of the garage in its locked case until that night. I can't really speak on gun violence only to say that what happened to him wasn't that. He shot expert. Every year he requalified. He knew his weapon top to bottom. He could assemble and disassemble it. He told the kids never to...