Editor's note: Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi wrote the following blog about the nation's gun debate. His essay was written as a chapter of a book he is writing about the Sikh Temple shootings in Oak Creek in 2012 and the aftermath.
The events of last Sunday, August 5th, are a tragic and violent example of the effects of extreme hate and anger in our society, and the role they can play in undermining the safety of all of us, and our nation.