Is this safe?

Are we really safer with everyone having — open carry — guns including mentally ill college students on campuses and elderly in nursing homes as Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is trying to legislate?

Aren’t guns better left to trained professional law-enforcement officials to protect us? St. James says, “Where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions?” Wouldn’t it be better to have an educational program, especially by parents, schools and churches, to change hearts?

This story was originally published October 16, 2015 at 9:05 PM with the headline "Is this safe?."