
: Home About the Author About this Blog My Parenting Library Best of Advertise Subscribe PhD in Parenting Blog Conversations We Need to Have : Teens and Mental Health by phdinparenting on December 19, 2012 Following the tragic shootings in Newtown , Connecticut last week , there are many conversations we need to having . Many actions we need to be taking . Some of those conversations , however , are taking the wrong turn . Instead of talking about gun control and gun safety , people are talking about those crazy people’ . I want you to know that for every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting , there were four unintentional shootings , seven criminal assaults or homicides , and 11 attempted or completed suicides” source : National Institutes of