Posted on Dec 9, 2023
How to keep kids safe from guns in the home : Life Kit
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If you think your kid doesn't know you own a gun or doesn't know where you keep it in your house, think again, says Dr. Lois Lee, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children's Hospital. It's like trying to hide holiday gifts from children, she adds. Kids can figure out where they are.
To keep children safe from firearms at home, make sure they can't accidentally handle them or use them, says Lee, who is also chair of the Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention at the American Academy of Pediatrics. That might mean storing your gun outside your house, getting a gun safe or locking your firearm.
If you think your kid doesn't know you own a gun or doesn't know where you keep it in your house, think again, says Dr. Lois Lee, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children's Hospital. It's like trying to hide holiday gifts from children, she adds. Kids can figure out where they are.
To keep children safe from firearms at home, make sure they can't accidentally handle them or use them, says Lee, who is also chair of the Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention at the American Academy of Pediatrics. That might mean storing your gun outside your house, getting a gun safe or locking your firearm.
How to keep kids safe from guns in the home : Life Kit
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My father kept a pistol in his night stand in the bedroom and his deer rifle in his closet all without locks. What he did have in the way of security was children who were respectful of other people's property.
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PO1 Gery Bastiani
In a spare bedroom we had a gun rack with two shotguns and two deer rifles. We were taught that they weren't toys and never touched them unless we're going hunting
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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NRA has something called the Eddie Eagle program and its sole purpose is to prevent children from injuring themselves or others via firearms. Basically if kid sees a gun: don't touch it, leave it alone, and find a grownup you trust.
NRA isn't all politics. That's just the side that gets the most press.
NRA isn't all politics. That's just the side that gets the most press.
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