A weapon improperly stored in your home can provide important risk factor for injury and death among children. Injuries are bound by firearms, certainly one of the leading causes of death in children. Homicides, suicides and deaths from unintentional injuries are just some of many cases in the context of the present.
896,000 children were killed by unintentional injuries to children and a rifle other 6287 commits suicide with a firearm United 1994-1998USA. According to the National Commission of Inquiry CDC mortality statistics, 18, 896 children died from unintentional injuries from firearms in those years.
detriment of non-lethal weapons victimize more children. They include infants and children. But young people are those who are interested. Children often find themselves after playing with a gun in the house were injured. Or pull themselves or their friends think the gun is not genuine or notloaded.
In the U.S., approximately 50% of all homes have some kind of firearms. Certainly, safety issues, most of these weapons purchased. But it is important to know that the intruder is less likely to kill or injure a family member of a firearm in the home (up to 43 times more likely, according to some reports).
Many say that the number of gunshot wounds has already reached epidemic proportions. educate this reason, programs for parents and children about firearms safety aredeveloped. The National Rifle Association gun safety Eddie Eagle program is one of them. The program teaches children to find a gun, "Stop!" Do not Touch. Leave the room. Tell an adult. "The American Academy of Pediatrics also educate their parents about the safety of firearms with their program" Protect your family from gunshot wounds. After them is the safest thing, not a weapon in the property, including a gun.
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