For the record, if I should happen to be murdered by someone with a gun...

For the record, if I should happen to be murdered by someone with a gun, I grant all supporters of sensible gun control legislation full permission to politicize my death — as quickly as they like.

I reject any notion that the months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes after a violent firearm incident are “not the time for political debate.”

It’s everyone’s First Amendment right to criticize the way some Americans interpret the Second Amendment’s support for a “well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State.”

It will in no way dishonor my memory if, as part of your mourning process, you challenge overly permissive gun control laws.