This latest assault on first responders - there have been too many others before, just not in suburbia - is in my neck of the woods.

I know the area, though not the people involved - it's in the county next to mine.

And though I live in a rural farm area, I regularly drive past three separate homes where the owners were murdered with guns, including a mother shot by her disturbed teenage son. I guess we should be thankful that he didn't drive the 4 miles down the hill to the local school.

I don't pretend to have the answers, but I do know that we need an open discussion and rational regulations... including the removal of federal protection of gun manufacturers from legal action.