I'm surprised no one has said this yet, but the biggest thing I'd like to change is our love of guns and violence. The Navy Yard shootings made me realize how immune I've become. I wasn't surprised or shocked or upset when I heard the news, it felt like "one more." The same way you'd feel if it rained all week and you woke up and it was raining again. You'd say "oh, it's raining again" and that'd be the last you'd think about it all day.

Years ago I had a friend who lived in London during the peak years of the IRA bombings. She said after awhile "you just get used to it."

When I hosted an Australian couple back in July they said they almost hadn't come to the US to visit because they don't understand our "fascination" with guns. After a mass shooting in Australia, everyone had to turn in their guns, and the sun still came up in the east the next morning....life went on, but less violently.

I've heard all the arguments on both sides, and I have no illusions that anything I say is going to change the views of anyone else, but the current state of affairs is deeply tragic.