Mariah Timms reported the tragic story this week of a four-person murder-suicide in Rutherford County. This is the part I find most confusing:

Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh said Sean Ganey, 29, shot his wife, Cassidy Ganey; her stepmother, Shelly Lorenz-Adair; and her father, Kenny Adair, and then himself. [...] Fitzhugh said deputies had been called to the home Friday and had taken Sean Ganey to a Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital after he expressed suicidal thoughts. "He was transported to the hospital and... we're trying to find out now what took place after that," Fitzhugh said Monday. Fitzhugh said under protocol, deputies would have transferred Sean Ganey to the care of the doctors to be evaluated. The incident would have been considered closed from the perspective of the sheriff's office unless doctors determined he need to be committed, Fitzhugh said.

Isn’t it obvious that, if a person is in such acute mental distress that the police have to come get him and take him to the hospital, the police should also take his guns and hold them for him until he’s in a better headspace? I genuinely don’t understand how that can be remotely controversial.

I know there’s a chance that the gun was not Ganey’s. So, let me just take this moment to remind gun owners again. You can kill people with guns. People can kill you with guns. You need some kind of gun storage with a lock and your gun needs to be locked in that cabinet/safe/whatever when you’re not in a situation where you might need to shoot someone.

No common-sense gun legislation is coming. We’re all doing the equivalent of letting you drink strychnine at church, and, for some reason, also letting you stop us from keeping strychnine out of the drinking water we all have to use, because that someone would infringe upon your rights.

So, gun owners, it’s on you. You need to fix gun culture. You claim you have your guns so that you can save us from tyranny or commies or bad guys or whatever. Well, now’s your chance. Save us.

Fix yourselves.