Abstract
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., was 7 or 8 when she saw a real gun for the first time. Staying overnight at a friend9s house, she immediately called her parents. My father often said to me that if you go into someone9s house, and they have a gun, call home and we9ll pick you up, said Dr. Prothrow-Stith, who lived in Atlanta as a child but now works in Boston for the Harvard School of Public Health. As it turned out, her parents decided not to pick her up. The unloaded gun was part of a memorial to her friend9s father, a police officer killed in the line of duty. Prothrow-Stith9s parents knew the police officer9s widow and knew about the gun, so they let young Deborah stay the rest of the night.
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