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Two hundred Nigerian girls are kidnapped. Several hundred Central American children are sent hundreds of miles away from home ­— alone. In these areas of the world, the governments have failed, the criminals have taken over and the parents are powerless.

Why? Because the citizens have no firearms.

Joe Kolloch

Salt Lake City