[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

"What is so important that you are defending that you need a gun?" said Quiroga, the mother of two teenage boys, before breaking into tears.

Let me answer that one Mrs. Quiroga. My father, who just had a heart attack and was implanted with a pacemaker/defibrillator and is NOT a candidate for heart surgery, was just awakened where he lives by the VERY SAME THING the other night. He picked up the pistol he owns and went to the door around MIDNIGHT to see who it was. No one was there. If it continues to happen, then I am going to go over there and stay with him. Do you need any more information, Mrs. Quiroga? Keep your child at HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[longtermmemmory]

This will lead to a decrease in such juvenile pranks and real home invasion robberies.

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"'What is so important that you are defending that you need a gun?' said Quiroga, the mother of two teenage boys, before breaking into tears."

This woman either doesn't think before she speaks or has resigned herself to being a perpetual victim. I'd tell her: MY LIFE AND THE LIVES OF MY LOVED ONES ARE WORTH DEFENDING, AND A GUN IS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR THAT!