We have all heard by now about the gorilla that was shot and killed in the Cincinnati Zoo in order to prevent any harm to a child that had fallen in.  Whether you agree with the decision to kill the gorilla or not, the fact of the matter comes down to good parenting.  Before your nostrils flare any further at that last sentence, let us clarify.  None of us on the Editorial Board at The Prairie have any children, so we can not pass judgment on this woman.  But we all agree that if we had children and if they had gotten out of our sight, like most children do, and fell into a pit with a silverback gorilla, we would have been in there before anyone would have a chance to even pull out their cellphone and start recording the incident.  One way or another, we would have found a way to put ourselves between that gorilla and our offspring.  Perhaps we are wrong and wildly assuming, but we feel that a parent’s instinct is to protect  their children.  We have all seen this when our mother’s brake too hard and her arm shoots out to her right to, somehow in her mind, prevent her child from being launched out the window!  A mother’s arm can’t possibly counteract the force of inertia, but she does it to protect her child; whether it will or will not, she does what she can to decrease any chance of harm.  The moral of the story: whether it be a gorilla pit, a lake of fire or into a cloud of bees, if our child falls in, we go in after.