There's been a shooting at a Wal-Mart in El Paso.

I'm seeing the usual calls for gun control.

And I don't know. I'm not going to say that we don't need to take a look at how people manage to get guns here in America because obviously we do. I don't so much object to the idea of sensible gun control as I object to the demonization of law-abiding gun owners (like the majority of my family) and this empty-headed belief that all we have to do to solve our problems is outlaw guns. Saying that this all the fault of the NRA or the GOP is an incredibly shallow approach to take.

Instead, we need to figure out why there's a dark spot growing on the American soul. I don't agree with Marianne Willaimson when she says we need to outlaw bullets and I find her views on Israel to be abhorrent but she is right about one thing. America needs some sort of spiritual rebirth, some sort of understanding that there is more to life than anger and hate. That doesn't mean that people need to suddenly become religious or anything like that. But we do need to believe in something beyond the moment.