We Lost Kendrick Castillo, but Colorado did not lose him in our memories.

Four months ago, we lost Kendrick Castillo, but Colorado did not lose him in our minds. “You raised me this way. You raised me to be a good person. That’s what I’m doing,’” (Kendrick’s Dad) John Castillo, as he quotes his son. As a parent, I worried about my 5-Year-Old as he goes to school. Going, I prayed for him, and when he arrived, I prayed for him.

How many times would we talk about gun violence in this country? How many times would we lose our children, neighbors, friends, co-workers, etc., to senseless gun violence? And when you speak out about it, out of this world argument comes to the forefront.

Here are some of the strange and silly arguments gun advocates make, and why they’re ridiculous.

1. Guns don’t kill people; people do.

Well, unstable people with guns kill many. Looking at our track records, we surpassed the world when it comes to killing one another. We have killed more of our own. We don’t know if the suspects in STEM School were suffering from depression. But, many mass shooters in the past were.

And guess what? People suffer from severe depression everywhere in the world. They get bitter and unsettled. But there aren’t mass shootings every few weeks in Finland, Denmark, Costa Rica or Japan. The…