The virus of gun violence has spread to classrooms., theaters and the workplace. At any given moment innocent life can be snuffed out without any notice. This virus will not go away by denying it exists ,or by shouting matches which finds others to blame.It will ,like all epidemics, come under control by a relentless study of the data as to the causes. At present there is no magic inoculation but that reality cannot give us permission to merely shrug our shoulders as we wait for the next visit of this plague. We all know that it will happen again ,and again and again. Gun owners and non gun owners need to stop the rhetoric against each other and start a mutual search that respects each other, but more importantly respects the victims who will soon be taken by this virus.