"I Wish I Had a Gun"

There's a storm on the loose
Sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence
All circuits are dead
--Golden Earring

Reports indicate that one of the people killed in the recent Virginia Beach shooting pondered taking a gun to work to protect herself from the very man who would murder her the next day. The municipal worker decided against it because of city policy that prevented employees from carrying on the job.

When defenseless people face a person pointing a gun at them, myriad thoughts are likely to pass thru racing minds facing extinction. If we were somehow able to capture those thoughts and categorize them, it is a good bet that one of the leading categories would relate to this theme:

"I wish I had a gun."

It is also a good bet that this very thought was one of the last things to go thru the head of woman in Virginia Beach who was prohibited from defending herself against a lethal attack.