More than twenty five percent of these parents said they kept a firearm in the home, usually a handgun. The gun owners were mostly white, married men, aged thirty and older. More than half of these firearm owners kept their guns loaded and locked or loaded and unlocked (3). Many of these parents believed that their children can distinguish between toy guns and the real thing. Twenty five percent of parents thought their children could be trusted to safely handle a loaded gun. Gun owners said the best way to prevent accidental shootings was safe storage and parental supervision while non-gun owners thought the best prevention was to not own a gun at all. A risk of domestic homicide was three times greater in homes with guns (Farah 4). According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a child is killed every two hours with a loaded gun(6).
A second reason parents should be prosecuted for unlocked guns is handlers of firearms, not makers, must keep guns from kids. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry says, "The best way to protect children against gun violence is to remove all guns from the home." Parents are making guns accessible to kids which need to stop (Smith 10). Keep all weapons locked in a lock box or safe and store the combination where only an adult can get to it. Hide keys where kids are unable to find them. Store the guns unloaded and lock up any ammunition. Teach your children not to play with or even touch guns. Tell your children if they come across a gun to tell an adult even if it means telling on a friend. Trigger locks are devices that prevent a trigger from being squeezed and prevent a firearm from being fired. They range from ten to twenty dollars and work for all guns. Parent's reasons for not securing their firearms are that they were hidden so they did not need to be locked. Many parents wanted the gun for protection. Although many gun owners keep a gun for protection, studies show that risks of keeping a gun in the home out weigh benefits.
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