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Study: Most Firearm Owners Do Not Store Their Guns Properly
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Mark A. Taff
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“54 percent of gun owners do not store all their guns locked away in a secure manner,” said Daniel Webster, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy & Research Director.
The survey defines safe storage as a locked gun safe, cabinet, or case.
Webster, the study’s co-author, says self-defense is one reason why many owners don’t follow safe storage protocol.
“They want to be able to easily access a loaded gun that they can fire rather quickly,” he said. |
Comment by:
PHORTO
(2/23/2018)
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And, what qualifies "public health experts" to opine on this subject, as opposed to, say, firearms and security experts?
It seems to me that they should stay within their bailiwick and keep their mouths shut about other disciplines. |
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We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |
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