I lived in Montgomery County, in two of the targeted neighborhoods, when the DC Snipers had their reign of terror. Someone was shot at MY post office, and we all had to decide whether it was safe to leave the house *at all* -- I was driving my daughter to school and running her inside, shielding her with my body. And I know that, if something had happened to us, I would have been questioned as a mother for not quitting my job, for not keeping her home from school.
There is no place that is truly "safe", only calculated risk. But no one can live in constant fear and raise their children that way.
Blaming parents for a madman showing up to a movie theater -- it's like blaming someone for getting struck by lightning.
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Date: 2012-07-20 08:09 pm (UTC)I lived in Montgomery County, in two of the targeted neighborhoods, when the DC Snipers had their reign of terror. Someone was shot at MY post office, and we all had to decide whether it was safe to leave the house *at all* -- I was driving my daughter to school and running her inside, shielding her with my body. And I know that, if something had happened to us, I would have been questioned as a mother for not quitting my job, for not keeping her home from school.
There is no place that is truly "safe", only calculated risk. But no one can live in constant fear and raise their children that way.
Blaming parents for a madman showing up to a movie theater -- it's like blaming someone for getting struck by lightning.
-- A <3