I’m a gun owner, but it’s time to get guns off our streets

They wore red to the Capitol.

A throng of students marched from East High School to the building where our elected officials debate the laws of the state. Most of the crowd wore red, their school color. It could as easily have been the color of spilled blood they came to protest against.

Luis Garcia, their classmate, succumbed Wednesday to the gunshot he suffered just over two weeks ago. He slipped away just before a planned gun safety summit organized by his classmates was scheduled to begin. They postponed that event to let people grieve, but they could not delay the anger and frustration that grew within them.

It is time that the people inside the Capitol take serious action. It is time to get the guns.

Between the day when Garcia was shot and the day he…