Protecting kids in schools

 During a newsroom discussion about guns about a decade ago, a woman piped up: “I don’t understand what the big deal is. I’m from Santa Rosa. We grew up with guns.”

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In New Mexico and other rural states, we begin the discussion from different sides of the fence. In the country, a gun is a tool used to hunt and protect livestock against varmints. In the city, the varmints are two-legged.

Since the nightmarish shootings in Connecticut, the arguments and analyses fly back and forth like an old western shoot-out, which leads me to a few observations.

First, gun ownership is a personal decision. I lived for eight years in a tough neighborhood where people kept telling me I should have a gun. 

I had a young son and chose not to. I did keep an ax handle next to the door and a tire iron on the nightstand, and never had occasion to use either. My son told me as an adult, “It’s a good thing you didn’t have a gun, because I would have found it.”

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