It's been two weeks since 17 innocent lives were lost - two weeks since countless families and friends will never be able to celebrate a happy Valentine's Day. Survivors have stood up and protested, have planned walk-outs, and have made waves on social media, but nothing has seemed to change.

This morning, I got the news that Dick's Sporting Goods is making a change.

This morning, I saw that they're going to stop selling assault-style rifles.

I have several different articles open about this change, all from different sources (New York Times, ABC, NBC, The Washington Post, BBC), but I felt the need to discuss it and why, while this is amazing, it's long overdue.

I've wanted to talk about the massacre that took place, but I didn't know what to say. Everyone was buzzing about it, and I'm sure there will be a lot of buzz about this news, too.

My chest aches just thinking about what happened and how those students must feel having to go back to school without peers and teachers, how the parents of the lost must feel knowing their child will never graduate.

My chest aches to know that survivors had to stand up and make some noise for anyone to notice.

My chest aches to know that it got this far.

My chest burns with anger and pain that we've had to lose so many innocent lives before anything happened.

My chest burns with anger that it had to be a business to make the first move instead of our government.

They're setting aside the profit they could be losing by making changes (both by lost revenue and lost customers angry about this change), but for some reason, our own elected officials heard the cries of the survivors and decided their funds were more important than others' lives.

That's a rant for another time.

That's a rant I hope I don't have to make.

Because I hope this will change things.

I hope people will see Dick's Sporting Goods support the cause for common sense gun control and follow them. I hope this is the start of "adults" finally listening to "children" about the change we should have seen April 20th, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado and have desperately needed since December 14th, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. In just these two school shooting events, a total of 43 lives were lost.

Want to know what's worse?

The Las Vegas shooter killed more than that in his one spree. He killed 59 people. I shouldn't have to say this, but that's too many.

I'm glad Dick's Sporting Goods is making a stand. I'm glad they're doing something. I'm just furious that a company is having to take a stand behind the "children" that want change. These "children" were huddled, scared for their lives, in their classrooms as they heard their friends get murdered. They aren't just children. They know what they're doing.

And finally, I'm glad Mr. Edward Stack, chief executive of Dick's Sporting Goods, is backing them up.