Innocence Lost?

I was driving down the street with both kids after school today. Suddenly, one of my kids asked who made guns. I said that a lot of different companies did. Kylee said she wished that there wouldn't be any guns made so that nobody would die from them. The conversation then turned to the people at war and how they could die from the guns. Kade said he wanted to be an army man, but decided he didn't want to because he didn't want someone to shoot him.

Call me strange, but I don't remember this being a normal conversation when I was little. I wonder if this is going to be the era that my kids grow up in? Does this mean we have lost the naivete of feeling safe, and they will grow up living with several wars? Both kids as long as they have been alive, we have either been fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq. I know it affects my children. I can only imagine those children and families of those who serve. I don't know if I agree with Kylee that I wish there weren't any guns. I guess I just wish there weren't those who were willing to use them against us. I wish to go back to the time Pre-Sept 11th. I want my children to experience that.