Rich Warmke is a PhD student of psychology at Walden University. He has spent the last 2 years studying various aspects of psychology and is passionate about applying psychology to drive social change. Rich is particularly interested in applying psychology to the social issue of gun violence in the United States. In 2017, Rich personally experienced a public shooting incident near his home in Reno, Nevada. The incident involved an active shooter on a balcony of an apartment building in which Rich and his two children resided. After many tense hours of sporadic gunfire and law enforcement’s barricading of the surrounding streets, a SWAT team broke into the apartment and apprehended the shooter. One year later, Rich’s son experienced a lockdown at his high school due to a report of a nearby active shooter. These two events, in combination with the thousands of subsequent mass shootings experienced by Americans all over the country, including the recent school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have motivated the creation of this blog. I encourage readers to post their own experiences with gun violence, whether through direct personal experience, indirectly through family or friends, or through social and new media. I also welcome any and all viewpoints regarding the causes, effects, or suggested ways to reduce gun violence. Please treat this blog as a discussion: by sharing and responding to each other’s ideas, we can better inform ourselves regarding this important issue.