By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |  After the Orlando shootings, my wife wrote a letter to several newspaper editors that made me think.  

She boiled all of the back and forth about escalating gun violence in America into a simple, salient point that many seem to have missed:  It’s become an issue of national security.  

The glut of guns solely made for killing people — handguns and assault rifles —  is changing America into a country where fearful people feel they need more and bigger guns to protect themselves.  They respond to patronizing rhetoric from groups like the National Rifle Association who taunt that the federal government is going to take away people’s guns.  Throughout the seven years of President Obama’s term, we’ve heard such chants time and time again, yet Obama hasn’t taken away guns.