How To Talk To Your Parents About Getting A Gun — A Conversation With My Mom

By James England

Recently, I had the pleasure of helping my mother install a home security system. I thought it was a great first step in her home security and it’s something she’s talked to me about for awhile. It brought up another topic of conversation: home defense and gun ownership.

In my family, I have an aunt and my mom. My aunt lives in Alaska and introduced me to firearms for the first time when I was twelve. In Alaska, gun ownership isn’t a topic of conversation — it’s a requirement. There’s more than just two-legged bad guys wandering around. In a rural wilderness where Kodiak bears, wolves, and predators roam, being able to defend yourself is just a simple requirement for living in that area.

My mother, however, is like the flip side of that coin. She never grew up with firearms and I don’t think she’s ever shot anything outside of the times she’s visited my aunt. However, we have a real threat emerging in the local area: heroin addiction.

It’s turning communities in this area inside out and there’s arguably not a single household in a square mile radius that hasn’t been personally affected by this epidemic.

Unfortunately, it’s also turning …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation