Last month I took a trip up to Los Angeles to visit my mother in the hospital. She was recovering from surgery and I spent an afternoon with her. My wife, my daughter and I spent the night with my father at my childhood home. I woke up the next morning, made coffee and turned on ABC channel 7 morning news. The chain of reports that proceeded was horrifying. There were three separate stories regarding local drive by shootings, mass shootings in public places and the shooting of children while they waited for a bus. There was a story about another murder in Beverly Hills and another about a woman found frozen in dry ice in a posh Newport Beach hotel.

All of this was shocking to me… As an American living in Baja what came next shocked me even more. The next story was a 15 second blurb that basically...