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Originally posted by sycamore
I don't know if you carry your gun all the time, but someone could still snatch you off the street even if you have it on you. That gun is your preventative and protective step. Better to do something than nothing, right?
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I'm licenced to carry, and the weapon is very small and light. Like the US policy on nukes, in any specifc case I will neither confirm nor deny. There are a few places (damned few, in this state) where it's not legal for me to carry. But I've been at pains to make it easier to carry than not to--draw your own conclusions. Point being I don't give up anything by carrying.
Instilling the idea in a child that they are in constant danger against which they are helpless and must rely upon others *is* giving up something. There's a constant balancing act between raising a child who's too big a risk taker, and one who cowers in a corner with her spirit broken.
It's an interesting question to think about
: if Erica *had* been constantly supervised as you're advocating, would she have had the moxie to escape as she did?
(How dark *is* 60th and Kingsessing at 9:30 in late July..less than an hour after civil sunset? Street lighting in most row-house districts is fairly bright...this isn't the Great Northeast we're talking about)