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For myself, I was raised in a military family and had empty tank shells and 20mm casings decorating my room from an early age. But I will offer an eye-witness account of my wife's transition:

Since coming to Houston in the mid-90s, I'd always lived inside the Heights/Montrose area of Houston and worked downtown. My wife also lived in the are since starting college in the early-90s. Neither of us ever felt unsafe - until post-2006. While we saw the character of our neighborhood and the area around the clinic where she worked changing, security was never an issue until last year - the same month we found out we were going to have a baby we had our car broken into, her clinic's drug cabinet was raided in broad daylight, and we got into a verbal confrontation with 4 'youths' that could have gone badly if not for some quick thinking and quick action getting into our car and driving off. That week we put our house on the market and three weeks later we were moving to the other side of the Brazos from Houston. Since that time we've acquire 4 hand guns to add to the trusty shotty - 2 range guns and 2 for carry - all with the wife's whole-hearted participation.

Should any of those events occur again, especially now that Little Llanite is here, I suspect she will be the first on the draw. Her motivation and determination to keep herself and her family safe are something to see...