Brent Spiner gets attacked by gun nuts for daring to comment on guns.

[IdaBriggs]

5. I can think of maybe three people in my life I trust with guns.

I know more that if I could put a "for the love of HEAVEN, NO WAY!" notice on a database somewhere, I would do so.

We recently lost an extended family member to suicide. His family is big on hunting. Everyone knew he was struggling with depression as he was both medicated and had attempted suicide in the recent past, and yet the family kept their guns because they are "hunting people."

He blew his brains out in his father's bedroom.

Twelve days ago I stopped at a cemetery to pay respects to my father. I ended up talking for nearly an hour with a woman whose eighteen year old son (diagnosed with bi-polar, being treated) decided in one of his "down swings" to take his own life three years ago. His family is still struggling with their grief. Might he have taken his own life another way? Yes. But easy access to a gun was how his life ended - and to my knowledge, they had never had reason to use one for "self defense."

I don't know many people I would trust with guns. I know more than I want to about those whose lives have been negatively impacted by easy access to these dangerous tools.

If a hobby endangers your family, my personal belief is that you should get a different hobby.

I applaud Brent Spiner's candid remarks. I think we are all better off with fewer guns in the world.

No, I'm not a fascist. But if it makes you feel better to think so, please keep the paranoid delusion going.