I’ll never forget the night we were awakened by beating on the door and repeated doorbell rings.  While I retrieved the Glock, the cell phone, and the Surefire, my wife ran to the door and flung it open!

Thank God, a police officer stood there.  (He’d caught the guy who burglarized our car, within minutes of the robbery.)  My first question was, “How did you catch him so fast?”  My second questions were directed to my wife.  We had to do some serious home defense tactics debriefing.

But there are more heartbreaking ways for your loved ones to introduce deadly danger into your home.  Yes, the very people you would die for sometimes bring you to just that ultimate sacrifice through their foolishness.

Last week, the boyfriend of the daughter returned to the birthday party and started killing.  Details are scant and gleaned from several news stories, but the daughter’s father was killed shielding the bodies of his children from bullets.

Fathers and mothers, is this sounding close to home for you?  I am sure that many of you have disapproved of the company your daughter keeps.  Some of you are heartbroken.  Her “It’s my life!” complaint is correct only insofar as it goes, and dead wrong otherwise: bumping up against scum out there endangers the entire family.  I’ve written about this before.

Lesson: You may live a clean life and stay out of trouble.  You don’t know what meth looks like and you don’t even know where you would buy Oxy except at Walgreen’s.  But, your precious children may be exposing you to the underworld.

Lesson: As we tried so hard to tell City Council here during the “guns in parks” debate, you simply cannot predict when or where evil people will strike.  They just don’t obey boundaries of parks, propriety, or anything else other than prison walls and caskets.

Lesson: Shielding your children from bullets is valiant; shooting the attacker is more effective.  But, he didn’t have a gun.