The Mentality of the Gun in America

<p>With every Nashville, Uvalde, or Parkland, I think of the families of the 20 six-and-seven-year-old children and 6 staff killed in Sandy Hook. The 19 children killed in Uvalde were aged nine to eleven. I know what it&rsquo;s like to unexpectedly lose someone you cherish. My wife Briggs died of medical errors just as we were turning around her cancer. Birthdays, anniversaries of deaths, and year-ends become times to think of decades lost.</p> <p>Well before Sandy Hook, Briggs and I moved out to L.A. on the back of an Off-Broadway play of ours. It was about a journalist and a suffragette poet going up against a corrupt presidential aspirant in 1917. It was set in New York on the eve of America entering World War One, and guns had figured in prominently.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@pwspictures/the-mentality-of-the-gun-in-america-c10d2b466d62"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>