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    | FL: Gun owners, keep your weapons unloaded and locked up Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
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    | Exercising the Second Amendment right to bear arms brings great responsibility, and storing a gun properly can save a child’s life. For the one-third of American homes that have guns, that means locking them up — unloaded — and locking up all ammunition in a separate place. A new study in JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical Association, confirms that doing those simple things could prevent nearly a third of gun deaths involving kids by accident or by suicide. Taking those practical steps would have saved thousands of children’s lives in the past decade.
 
 Ed.: An unloaded, locked gun is less effective a tool than a rock.
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    | Since when are doctors experts on firearms and self-defense? If I felt ill, I certainly wouldn't go to an FFL for advice. 
 Doctors: STAY IN YOUR LANE.
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