Our Responsibility is to not Let Guns Fall into Their Hands

   Police shot and injured an 18-year old mentally ill man in Ogden Tuesday. The man was said to have been charging toward an officer with a knife.

   We, as society, should do better in keeping weapons out of reach of the mentally ill. It might be hard to keep a butcher knife from him, but a gun should not be anywhere he could get it.  Family members, friends and others have responsibility to keep their weapons out of the reach of their mentally ill associates.

  Of course, it might be that the 18-year-old bought the gun on his own, that it was his. That is a little harder to control. Still, the message remains: If someone you know is mentally ill, you have an obligation to society to keep your gun from falling into his or her hands.