In the wake of our mass shooting of the week Wednesday in California, I'm not going to pen a pointless column about gun control that will never take place. I've come to the sobering realization there will never again be a time in American history when a madman can't gain easy access to a machine gun and slaughter innocent people.That being said, I've stumbled on a few gun-related statistics I'm going to convey. The first pertains to my opening statement about a mass shooting of the week.