I'd already made my Big Concession ten years ago when I lifted my domestic toy gun ban. It was strictly strategic: my four weapons-deficient sons had become so gun-obsessed that they found every scraggly branch or sausage link capable of rapid fire. At toy stores, after loading up with things nonviolent, I'd have to drag them drooling from the artillery aisle. What if my repressive rule were to backfire, compelling them to become all I'd tried so desperately to keep them from becoming?

Like I said, strictly strategic.