As a public health pro, here's my proposed solution to gun violence

[Fly by night]

Since senseless gun-involved killings continue apace in this country and the NRA continues to defy reality by blocking sensible gun control legislation, maybe we can convince them to partner with the American Public Health Association to launch a suicide promotion campaign for nuts-with-guns. Tag line:

If you're angry enough
to shoot someone,
start with
YOURSELF.

I now have this message in the back window of my pick-up truck and (so far) I've gotten nothing but thumbs-up for it. HOWEVER, I have put the sign up behind the passenger side. After all, I'm sarcastic (and fed-up), but I'm not suicidal.

This is prompted not only by the Navy Yard mass shooting but by the murder-suicide that occurred last week not two miles from my isolated farm when a husband shot his wife in the back (five times) and then turned the gun on himself. All in front of their three children, the youngest of them age 5.

[Mnemosyne]

1. Getting crazy out there for sure. A young man, age 35, buying my house on land contract, shot

himself in the house, in front of his fiancee that he shared the house with, about 3 weeks ago. I am still in shock and very upset.

It is better if they just take out themselves, but would be even better if they got help.

[Fly by night]

2. Sorry to hear about your recent situation.

The solution is (and always has been) to ramp down the almost pathological gun obsession in this country and to enact many, many restrictions that exist (and work well) in other countries.

I haven't even mentioned the gun fellator who lives down the creek from me and who shoots 100-150 high powered rounds a day on some days. And that with a six month old baby at home.