Essay On Gun Safety

The depiction of gun safety for children is a much needed in the home. According to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, over 1,600 kids were killed by guns alone and another 9,718 were injured by one. A high percentage of these deaths came from children playing with guns that were loaded while the parent was not present ("Gun Violence: Facts and Statistics | Violence Prevention Initiative"). Increasing crime rates in our society is influencing more citizens to go out and purchase a gun to protect their family and property. One-third of every home has a gun and just about every home has kids in them which make it very dangerous for the children. If you own a gun or not, it is very important that you talk to and teach your children about gun safety because most guns are not properly stored away or have a lock on the firearm. Often children learn about guns from their friends, cartoons, and other places and then they pretend to play with guns.

When people have owned a gun for some time they often forget that they still have to take precautions for their safety and other people’s safety. In order to teach minors about gun safety, you must educate yourself on the use of firearms and firearm safety. With the increase of gun purchases, the majority of them are inexperienced and uneducated buyers.

On the opposing side, children should be around guns in the first place because they should be locked away and stored in a safe place away from children’s reach. For older children, you have to take even better precautions because they tend to know more since they have been exposed to more and are able to understand much better than a toddler. But you can’t keep everything from children because they are not always in your own eyesight or under the same type of supervision that a parent would give their own