I was listening to CNN, and  they just reported that Pastor Rick Warren’s son committed suicide by a self inflicted gun wound.

As a Licensed Psychotherapist, I immediately felt great sadness for the family, and felt distraught over the questions that flooded my mind. How does a young man with a history of mental illness, as his father Pastor Rick Warren reported, have access to a gun?

Clearly, we are failing as a culture to manage the access of guns to people with mental illness, who either kill themselves or kill others.

I appreciate any replies to this blog, so that perhaps a conversation might reveal some solutions.