Taylor was the victim of a sad truism: He brought a knife to a gunfight.

Had taylor been holding a shotgun instead of a machete, he might still be alive today.

A friend of mine told me that he heard something about NFL players being 'discouraged' from owning guns.

I've been trying to find out if that's true. I'm not sure how you 'discourage' people from doing so. But I did think it was odd that Taylor only had a knife.