In a home where guns are kept, the degree of safety a child has rests squarely on the child's parents.
Parents who accept the responsibility to learn, practice and teach gun safety rules will ensure their child's safety to a much greater extent than those who do not. Parental responsibility does not end, however, when the child leaves the home.
According to federal statistics, there are guns in approximately half of all U.S. households. Even if no one in your family owns a gun, chances are that someone you know does. Your child could come in contact with a gun at a neighbor's house, when playing with friends, or under other circumstances outside your home.
It is critical for your child to know what to do if he or she encounters a firearm anywhere, and it is the parents' responsibility to provide that training.
What's your opinion? Why does it seem that this message is not getting through? There's certainly nothing wrong with the message itself. Perhaps it's not being disseminated properly. Or perhaps that old human tendency of assuming "it'll never happen to me" is so prevalent among gun owning adults, that they just don't pay attention. What can be done about that?
What's your opinion? Why does it seem that this message is not getting through? There's certainly nothing wrong with the message itself. Perhaps it's not being disseminated properly. Or perhaps that old human tendency of assuming "it'll never happen to me" is so prevalent among gun owning adults, that they just don't pay attention. What can be done about that?
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"Why does it seem that this message is not getting through?"
ReplyDeleteOn the contrary. It must be getting through, somehow. There are 200-250 million privately owned firearms in the US and only a fraction of a percent of them will ever be used by a child to cause harm to themselves or others.
This is a shameless NRA marketing ploy to get parents to buy more guns. Nothing more.
ReplyDeleteMikeB ad libs the following: RuffRidr sent us this link proving, I don't know what. It is interesting though.
ReplyDeleteOuch MikeB, that was kinda a cheap shot. First of all, I didn't send you anything. Second of all, Democommie asked the question of why doesn't the NRA disseminate safety information to adults as well as children. I replied with the link showing that they indeed do such a thing. Of course, anybody who has been to a gun show has probably already seen the NRA booths that hand out this information and this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone willing to do some research.
What am I trying to prove? I guess I am proving that Democommie is full of shit.