As always, Napolitano is right on track! “After the Parkland, Florida school shooting debate over gun rights and the 2nd Amendment has become heated, Judge Andrew Napolitano explains why gun-free zones are the most dangerous places on Earth and what ‘the right to bear arms’ really means.”

Have you changed your mind at all in regards to The 2nd Amendment since the Parkland, Florida shooting?

IFStudies.org – “Another shooting, another son of divorce. From Adam Lanza, who killed 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., to Karl Pierson, who shot a teenage girl and killed himself at Arapahoe High in Centennial, Colo., one common and largely unremarked thread tying together most of the school shooters that have struck the nation is that they came from homes marked by divorce or an absent father. From shootings at MIT (i.e., the Tsarnaev brothers) to the University of Central Florida to the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., nearly every shooting over the last year in Wikipedia’s “list of U.S. school attacks” involved a young man whose parents divorced or never married in the first place.

This is not to minimize the importance of debates about gun control or mental health when it comes to understanding these shootings. But as the nation seeks to make sense of these senseless shootings, we must also face the uncomfortable truth that turmoil at home all too often accounts for the turmoil we end up seeing spill onto our streets and schools.

The social scientific evidence about the connection between violence and broken homes could not be clearer. My own research suggests that boys living in single mother homes are almost twice as likely to end up delinquent compared to boys who enjoy good relationships with their father. Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson has written that “Family structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictor of variations in urban violence across cities in the United States.” His views are echoed by the eminent criminologists Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, who have written that “such family measures as the percentage of the population divorced, the percentage of households headed by women, and the percentage of unattached individuals in the community are among the most powerful predictors of crime rates.”

Many corporations are now taking aim at the NRA and it’s members. Join NRA members shooting back by boycotting their companies and services.

MetLife, Chubb, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, First National Bank of Ohama, Enterprise, Hertz, Symantec, SimpliSafe, Wyndham Worldwide, Best Western and a few I’m sure are now missing from the list as more jump on the knee jerk bandwagon, have all so far made public statements that they will be dropping NRA member discount promotions.

Are you planning to boycott these and other companies that are hellbent against NRA and it’s 5 million members?

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