To the Police Officers. The protective parents, the hunters, the Gun Safety teachers. I am sorry.

No longer will you be viewed as someone who protects, no longer will you be viewed as someone with peaceful intentions. The object you carry on your belt, keep in a safe under your bed, or instruct others how to use safely, now defines you.

Our society has been consumed with violence, consumed with individuals with horrific intentions. Individuals who utilize this object for their own means, to end the lives of the innocent.

You hear the argument daily - what is more dangerous, the gun or the person behind it? "Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

Well, this is true in many respects.

Take a car, for instance. Cars are in many ways, weapons. Cars can cause mass destruction, and some people do utilize them for such. However, we do not blame the vehicles, we blame the individuals behind the wheel. Normally this analogy would hold a decent amount of weight, but it no longer does. People are speaking blindly about guns, because we are so full of fear that we are at a loss to find not only the solution, but we want to make sense of the situation that we find ourselves in.

Let us not be hypocrites to protect what we take for granted.

Gun violence has come to such a peak, the death toll is beyond excessive that something has to be done. There may be no more finger pointing, we do not have time for such peculiarities. We are wasting so much of our time blaming specific groups of individuals that we are forgetting that we are all human.

The fact of the matter is that guns are now a huge source of anxiety within our modern day world. We fear under someone's waistband there may be an object that could end the lives of all in the immediate or even extended vicinity. More people now carry guns due to the fear of guns themselves, thinking if anything were to happen they would be more prepared. And then there are others, the idealist who preach that guns need to somehow be taken away, as if it's that easy. That even police officers should not carry guns.

Well to you, I say, the fact of the matter is the world is an increasingly violent place, and before you think about disarming the cops, you had better find a way to disarm the bad guys. I would never let my brother, an NYPD officer, take his post without his gun on his hip. For not only has he been trained profusely on how and when to use it, but within the city alone there are thousands of people who have weapons more powerful, more deadly than the lone gun he carries on his waist.

I wonder, as many do, if and how we will find a solution. To take guns from citizens is to leave them unarmed against criminals. Yet how do we disarm criminals when, guns are bought illegally, but most importantly when criminals are not always easy to point out.

Yes, we need strict background checks, yes, we need to mandate lessons for those who decide they want to purchase a firearm. Yes, we need to make it as difficult to purchase a gun as it is for a woman to receive an abortion in this country. Yes, we need to get our priorities straight and we need to band together, not even as a country, but as a people who are tired of seeing the names of the innocent across our televisions screens. 49 lives lost.

No more peculiarities. No more blame. We must move forward.