Adele Ferguson-`Must do something' does not guarantee safety

I’VE LIVED around guns all my life.

My father was career Army, and when I was a kid, my brothers and sisters and I learned to hoist up a heavy service rifle, as well as a .22, and shoot cans off fence posts during the short times we lived in the country, rather than in barracks buildings where your neighbor wasn’t just next door, he was through the wall.

We were taught early that guns never came off the closet top shelf except in the hands of my father. Anyone who dared touch one otherwise risked being blown to smithereens because only he knew the secret of avoiding that.

My household today is...