Handguns in Households with Children

The problem of a pistol who has a gun for children in an American home is as serious as a drug problem: 43% of families with children have guns; 10 children die every day with a pistol , And dies every two and a half hours. This is the same as the class for children every 2 days. Parents are not aware that they have the physical ability to reach and disarm their guns before they can understand the potential consequences of these behaviors. Parents should be strongly urged to hold the gun at home to remove the guns and secure them in a safe place.

The results vary, but in this survey, 50% of all pistols are unlocked, 239 ammunition is unlocked in about one third of households, 240 to 1.6 million children live in 2007 I will. According to a nationwide survey, it is judged that over 1/3 of parents with guns and children have safely kept guns 242 These studies are considered to be reasonable as they are based on surveys It is. Since many respondents may not want strangers to keep guns and ammunition in such a way that they harm children, sometimes underestimate the seriousness of the defects in the household storage method ing

According to statistics, when we know that more than 50 million Americans have a pistol, we should prepare to oppose personal pistol. Articles entitled "Children and guns" on the Internet report statistics. (June 1999), "13 young people under the age of 19 were murdered with shooting, suicide, and unintentional shootings and more people were injured" This is titled "Children and Guns on the Internet" There is a report in the article being done. (June 1999) Some people would argue that we must have the right to own a pistol to be free. I do not think so. This is because in the event of a crisis the military or other authorized personnel can distribute all kinds of weapons they need.

The central argument is about handguns. Our evidence suggests that pistols are overused for homicide and robbery. "Although the number of American pike is about three times that of pistol, more than 80% of shoots and more than 90% of burglaries are involving pistols (Hemenway, D. 1995: 60) Pistol's in damaging Given the special role, we have compelling reasons to widely control the pistol or even cancel it.