I was 14 in 1965 and a pit bull entered our back yard and attacked my 7 year old brother.
I intervened and got chewed up.

55 years later, I still carry a gun.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps