The people of Manchester will be grieving for a very long time. For the families that loved those 22 killed and 59 injured, the days will never go back to normal. Overall, the world will have to heal from this attack.

It was horrific, it was cruel, and it was abominable, nothing short of it.

But it will happen again.

1984. San Ysidro, California. 21 killed, 19 injured.

1991. Killeen, Texas. 24 killed, 20 injured.

2007. Virginia Tech. 33 killed, 25 injured.

2011. Oslo, Norway. 77 killed, 242 injured.

These numbers are increasing.

Why?

Because we don't do anything until after a tragedy occurs. We never take any real action or put proper precautions into place until people are injured, murdered, and families are shattered.

It will happen again because we will allow it to. How long until the next diner customers are massacred leaving no survivors? How long until the next movie theater is sprayed with bullets? How long until the next elementary school is invaded with a Glock, Sig Sauer, and AR-15?

Osama Bin Laden had a family. Yet, he orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in the history of the world. He took fathers away from their daughters, mothers away from their sons, and left children abandoned and alone.

We don't want to believe that other human beings are capable of such horrors. We don't want to think about the fact that right now, someone is probably planning the next tragic event. Our brains don't want to handle the thought that people just like us can take such unspeakable actions against our own kind.

But it is happening, and we are choosing to ignore it.

We know it is happening. We know it is coming. We don't know what it will be, but we are just sitting, waiting.

We aren't preparing.

Now, I believe in the 2nd Amendment. I do. We all have the right to bear arms. However, people have emotions, and when strong feelings are surfaced, people act irrationally. This can happen at any time, in any situation; not every shooting is pre-planned ahead of time. No matter how level-headed a person generally is, things happen. But a mass shooting shouldn't be one of them.

In some states, gun control is still ungoverned. How does it make you feel to think that the person sitting next to you in a movie theater is carrying a gun? Does it make you feel safer, or does it threaten you?

In the middle of a screening of The Dark Night Rises in 2012, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age 6, was shot four times. Matt McQuinn, age 27, was shot nine times. Jessica Redfield, age 24, was shot six times after avoiding the 2012 Toronto Eaton Center shooting by just minutes. 12 people were murdered; for what purpose?

When used correctly, guns for protection are effective and may overall save lives. During a home invasion, an entire family may survive without a scratch. That's not where the problem is.

Gun control won't take your guns away for good. It will simply lessen the possibility that these tragedies will occur in the future. There is, as always, a good side and a bad side to every situation. Shootings will still happen within the home when tensions boil over. If someone has planned a massacre, no one can stop them. But a six-year-old girl in a movie theater on a Friday night should never be in danger of losing her life.

Guns don't kill, people do. But we can't control people, so we have to start somewhere.