Tribute to Guy Parsons

When I was a teen, a young friend of mine, Guy Parsons, committed suicide with his family’s Colt .45 revolver. The gun wasn’t locked. The gun had been bought for family protections. But as statistics tell us, a gun in the home is 22-times more likely to harm someone in the home than to be used to protect them. This boy had grown up around guns, and I had shot alongside him with .22 rifles at Boy Scout camp. But children and guns don’t mix. It’s time for reasonable gun regulation, including Child Access Protection laws, nationwide. I am also a survivor of a shooting. A couple years after Guy killed himself, a teenage boy fatally shot another in the head with his family’s gun. It happened only a few feet away from me. No one should have to cradle a dying teen in their arms, as I did.