Guns are instruments of madness.
Or 25 years ago when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. Or 13 years ago when John Lennon was killed. Or 12 years ago when James Brady was wounded. The issue, of course, is gun control, which actually is an abbreviated catch-phrase that means if people can't control themselves enough not to shoot each other, society should try to control their tools of destruction. And it's an issue that many Washington state lawmakers will have their sights set on when the next legislative session opens in January.