For Moms

One Million Moms for Gun Control:

http://www.facebook.com/OneMillionMomsForGunControl

Moms Rising:

http://www.momsrising.org/

Please, take a look.

Keep Children Safe with Guns at Home

From this article, by the American Academy of Pediatrics:

Gun Safety: Keeping Children Safe

Research shows guns in homes are a serious risk to families:

• A gun kept in the home is 43 times more likely to kill someone known to the family than to kill someone in self-defense.
• A gun kept in the home triples the risk of homicide.
• The risk of suicide is 5 times more likely if a gun is kept in the home.

Advice to parents:

The best way to keep your children safe from injury or death from guns is to NEVER have a gun in the home.

• Do not purchase a gun, especially a handgun.
• Remove all guns present in the home.
• Talk to your children about the dangers of guns, and tell them to stay away from guns.
• Find out if there are guns in the homes where your children play. If so, talk to the adults in the house about the dangers of guns to their families.

For those who know of the dangers of guns but still keep a gun in the home.

• Always keep the gun unloaded and locked up.
• Lock and store the bullets in a separate place.
• Make sure to hide the keys to the locked boxes.

Let it Be

Just drove home from my favorite seafood restaurant with my wonderful wife and fantastic son, we put "Let It Be" on the CD player and we all sang along. It was the perfect end to my birthday. Makes me realize that sometimes my life would be nothing short of complete if I was capable of playing that song on my piano and having my family and friends sing with me.

Sometimes life just seems real simple.