Other People's Children

I thought everyone knew not to attack other people's children.
 Apparently the U.S. has a lot of work to do to make that so again. At one time in America, children were sacrosanct in American society...so that if a stranger did attack a child, he or she tried to hide the attack.
Any child above the age of reason will fight hard to get a gun away from an attacker. Anyone
with an ounce of sense knows not to worry about breaking the nose of an accosting stranger who happens to be an armed gunman.