On June 10 musician Christina Grimmie was shot and killed. Her murderer killed himself after being tackled to the ground by Grimmie’s brother.

This tragedy should serve as a reminder. We need tougher gun control laws. The solution is not more guns. The idea of “if someone was there with a gun, they could’ve shot the other person and stopped the attack", while this logic seems sound, it isn’t. No one can predict who will randomly pull out a gun and attack another human being, and if the person hadn’t had a gun in the first place, the death of someone wouldn’t happen.

This isn’t about someone famous dying. This is about a sister, a daughter, a granddaughter. Every day, someone dies of a gun related incident.

The answer to violence isn’t more violence. The answer to guns isn’t more guns. And maybe it’s inconsiderate to use her death so soon as a platform for gun control, but after Sandy Hook and all the other shootings that have taken place since, any one of them could be used as evidence. The argument of “they were mentally ill” should not be an excuse for it. If they were mentally ill, they shouldn’t have been able to get access to the weapon in the first place.

My thoughts go out to the family and friends of Ms. Grimmie in this horrible time.