Posted on 04/27/2016 6:10:33 AM PDT by rellimpank
Shamara Austin felt violated when she and her two sons, one just a few months old, came home six years ago to find their condo on Milwaukee's northwest side had been burglarized.
Someone broke in through the sliding glass patio door and ransacked the unit, flipping over mattresses, stealing televisions and a video game system.
The burglary shook her up and terrified her 7-year-old son, who began having nightmares. Austin had always been afraid of guns, and had no direct experience with them — other than hearing about people hurt or killed in shootings. For the first time in her life, she considered buying one.
Allison Borre, a mother of three, grew up near Whitewater. She remembers the first time her dad took her target shooting during a family trip up north. She was 8.
Borre, who now lives in Pewaukee, was re-introduced to shooting as an adult when a post-divorce suitor took her to a shooting range for their second date. The guy didn't stick, but her interest in shooting did.
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**Austin and Borre made the decision to bring a gun into their homes after wrestling with a fundamental question for any parent: How do you keep your children safe?**
How do you keep your children safe around knives?
How do you keep your children safe around the family dog?
How do you keep your children safe around the range top when water is boiling?
How do you keep your children safe in a car going down the interstate at 70mph?
Need I go on?
“Sometimes, she says, she can’t help but wonder if she’s attracting “negative energy” by carrying a gun.”
Just the opposite. As martial artists have long known, having the means to defend yourself gives you a carriage that means it is far *less* likely that you will *have* to defend yourself.
Lots of robbers have been profiled to the conclusion that they are much like wild predatory animals, preferring to attack the weak, crippled, old and young. But adults that look nervous or timid are right up there on the list.
Pass on the pit bull and get a Labrador retriever.
I can't even reply to that. I'm not a Buddhist or other pagan mystic. "Negative energy" is energy flowing out of a system. I don't know exactly what this person means by it.
LOL Yep, even "mean" Labs are nice dogs.
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