Most US households with children do not safely store firearms in the way the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends: locked up and unloaded
More US school-age children die from guns than on-duty US police or global military fatalities, study finds"Even a relatively modest increase" in locking up firearms could result in"substantial reductions in firearm suicide and unintentional fatalities among U.S. youth," Michael C. Monuteaux, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, wrote in an email.
Generally, media violence influences younger people most of all, but it affects people of every age, he said."The average kid consumes 7½ hours of media every day," he said."What activity can you do 7.5 hours a day and have it have absolutely no effect on your behavior?"Bushman believes that both gun owners and non-gun owners can agree on one thing:"Guns are not toys. Children should not be playing with guns.
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