It's our gun culture that's mentally ill

OK. I have nothing to lose, so I’m going to go all the way out to the edge on this gun issue.

In 2005, I watched as my friends at Red Lake were killed, traumatized and besieged by reporters, then forgotten, after a confused and alienated kid drove to the school where I had worked and killed seven people.

I am, as I write this, on a plane back to my home in Portland, Ore., 180 miles north of the mass-murder site in the town of Roseburg, where I used to buy car parts when I lived in the Oregon woods many years ago and where I have visited on my journeys south through the magical Oregon countryside.

http://www.startribune.com/it-s-our-gun-culture-that-s-mentally-ill/330780141/