Have you ever had to defend yourself or someone you love from an intruder?
Part of the worries of a modern world is waking up in the middle of the night to the sounds of someone breaking into your home. What will you do? Call 911 and hope someone comes along to save the day?
Unfortunately, all too often today, some people expect that someone else will teach our kids what they need to know, help us through our interpersonal relationships and defend us from the nasties of our world. Too few rely on themselves or take responsibility to solve their own challenges.
Part of this naive thinking is that if we some how control guns then violent crime will disappear, people will use words and not their fists and the trains will run on time.
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report on children’s deaths due to firearms. In 1999, 88 children died from firearm accidents. One article summarizes: “Far fewer children die each year in firearm incidents than from car accidents, fires, poisoning, suffocation, or drowning.”
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