What happens in Vegas touches us all.

It's a nice concert, you're having a beer, chilling outside with your friends, swaying to the music. Warm breeze, cool brew. Ahh, Vegas.


Then your wife’s head somehow explodes in a pink mist, splattering you with your past and future. She’s gone and you’re in shock. Right now.


Then your brother lurches, and drops to the ground like a sack of wet cement, never to rise again.


400 yards away, in the sky, from a balcony high up, you see it. Flash after flash, your hear the shots, boom, boom, boom, coming fast, one after another. Around you bodies are dropping. Limbs breaking and flailing, blood and screams, panic, sheer, blind, terrifying, pants-soiling panic.


You pull your 9 mm pistol from your belt and... and...you hold your wife’s body and wait for your turn, scream out and shoot aimlessly, or you run like hell.


There is no gun control to save you, and that gun in your hand won’t protect you, or bring your loved ones back. You are neither bulletproof, nor a threat to a distant sniper. You are just about to be a victim.


Gun control only works if it is in place before demented terrorists, psychopaths, and Nazi-saluting killers get the guns and start shooting.


Now is the time to brand the NRA a terrorist organization sponsored and supported by Russian and foreign forces, and appeased by the mindlessly greedy GOP.


Now is the time to end the fear and distrust of your neighbors and the police; instead  engage with them to end their fear of different races and cultures. Show them that we, Americans, people, are all the same, and that none but the craziest or most desperate want to shoot or get shot.


Now is the time to support sensible limits on civilian and police gun ownership, including types of guns, magazines, and the owners’ suitability based on mental health and legal records.


Now is the time to stop saying "But the Second Amendment."


Now is the time to stand up for your right to not be shot in a random massacre in your own country.

Now is the time. Now. Is. The. Time.