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
Aiming for Prevention: Making Gun Safety a Priority for America's Children According to a study of emergency room data, more than seven thousand children are hospitalized each year due to accidents or injuries from guns; approximately six percent of them do not survive their injuries (Miller, 2014). Gun owners have a responsibility to ensure that their firearms are appropriately stored and secured in order to keep them out of the hands of children. There are several different ways to secure firearms
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, “there have been 160 school shootings since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012” (Lemire).The 160 school shootings don’t include the endless attacks on movie theaters across the country. For instance, a man with a history of mental illness who is armed with a pellet gun, hatchet and pepper spray open fires at a movie theater in Antioch, Tennessee. Not even two weeks before that
Buying Your First Gun Safe: Six Important Considerations Buying a gun safe is a big deal, even if you're only a casual user of the weapon(s) you own. Especially with your first safe, you want to make sure you don't overlook any important details, under estimate or over estimate any of your needs and of course, make safety the priority. 1. Buy One Size Up From What You Think You Need Although you need to consider the location of your gun safe in order to ensure a proper fit for it, avoid a model
Recommendations When Buying a Gun Safe Buying a gun safe is a serious matter that all gun owners should take seriously. Keeping firearms stored away properly is one of the best ways to protect oneself from any sort of unwanted mishaps. Getting a safe for guns is not that difficult of a task. There are some things that buyers should keep in mind before buying their safe. Here are some recommendations for those who want to buy a storage safe for their guns that can help in choosing the right one
Gun safety is a subject that has been a main topic in the past few years among many, especially within politics. It is something that has become a substantial topic in the past few years due to many shootings and accidents that have occurred with today’s youth. It is a topic that needs to be addressed. Gun safety is very important in the matters of teaching people that firearms are not a toy. One should always treat the gun like it is loaded. Too many people choose to play around with guns by swinging
the SIRS data base, gun safety measures seek to eliminate or minimize the risk of unintentional death, injury or damage caused by the accidental discharge of a firearm. Some feel that young children should be taught what to do if they encounter a firearm. Others believe that telling young children to just simply leave the gun alone is better approach. (Pro Quest Staff). This paper will examine the pro, con and my viewpoint on whether young children should be taught gun safety or not. To begin with
Safety is the one desire all parents have for when sending their children off to school. Whether it 's dropping them off at daycare or sending them off to college on their own. Being in a safe environment while at school should be a given right. But, are schools taking the right step to keep their students safe? As much as parents put their child’s safety first, schools should as well. Putting security systems in and school security officers are actions some schools are taking for higher security
Gun Safety Taught In Schools Should gun safety be taught in schools? This is a question that should be considered in view of the recent events happening in our world today. Children in this generation fall into one of two categories: scared of guns or curious about them. In one of ABC’s news reports the Center Of Disease Control released a statement “While fewer kids are bringing guns to school, the rate of firearm deaths among children younger than thirteen years of age remains twenty
wondered whether or not gun safety would be useful? There are many opinions the usefulness of gun safety, we are going through this issue right here in Kansas with our concealed carry law going into effect on July 1 2015. According to At Issue a reference database online through usd261 states that gun safety seeks to eliminate or minimize death or injury from guns. While some group’s state education is the key to gun safety, opposition state that children should not even be around guns at all. This paper
prepare a presentation. I chose gun safety, the do’s and don’ts of how to properly keep your gun safe. The reason I mentioned this is because back then I really didn’t realize the potential a gun has to end a life. Without the proper controls it can be a lethal weapon. Currently there are certain measures to control the flow guns and restrict the access to certain individuals who may pose a threat, but they don’t seem to be working. Some people argue that the current gun control measures should be remove
Firearm safety is a controversial topic in America attributable to the several accidents that involve firearms. The main cause of an accident or death when operating a firearm is a accidental discharge. Several safety procedures and courses may prevent this from happening. Firearm safety and the education behind it is important and necessary in decreasing the several accidents and deaths in America. Guns are not toys and everyone should have proper gun safety before handling or possessing a firearm
handle the situation? Guns can be deadly when abused and used incorrectly. There is a way to reduce the unnecessary deaths. Firearm safety is the important piece in reducing the deaths and firearm abuse and it should be made mandatory in schools. The first step in making firearm safety mandatory in school is to find programs that will teach it. Thankfully there are many programs that will do it. The NRA, which stands for National Rifle Association, has a program that teaches gun safety (Eddie Eagle GunSafe)
To many guns are big and bad scary thing, but they are a constitutional right and nobody can fear a right. We as a society do not teach the common public about Gun safety and use and I feel we should incorporate gun safety classes in school to teach children at a young age about them. We can never not have guns so might as well teach people how to deal with them and not to fear them. We have ------ million guns in just the united states owned by citizens. I know that many want to ban the use
We Need Additional Gun Control Laws to Ensure Public Safety On April19, 1999, 7-year-old Nafis Jefferson was shot and killed with a .44-caliber revolver, a Rossi Model 720, while playing with friends along a street in his South Philadelphia neighborhood. Children found the gun stashed under an abandoned car parked along the street. One of the children, also a 7-year old boy, picked up the gun and fired it, hitting Nafis in the head. Nafis died six hours later at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
succeed along with something that would have a positive effect on the community. This part of the state in particular, is filled with hunters and gun enthusiasts. To go along with that, there has been a push for more control due to the numerous unfortunate events of gun related deaths that were the result of being uneducated about proper gun safety and proper gun handling. With that being said, I believe that a rifle range that would include more than just aiming at targets would have a lot of upside
Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, published an article stating, “Instead of firearms training, people can attend hunter safety courses to qualify for permits. Those classes occupy only 10 hours just for the individual to be able to carry handguns for their own private needs.” (http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/133370223.html). This is a prime reason why the public’s safety is the job of the authority, officials, and police, not the people. Many states don’t even require as much training for
Business Plan Executive Summary Target Things is a mobile training and safety instruction company; it will utilize the DART Targeting System, a computerized range system incorporating the latest in technology and graphics. It is a 3-D range, which can be used for archery or other weapons type training. This convenient, compact and very affordable Dart digital shooting system comes in three portable cases that can be easily transported in a mid-sized vehicle. One case holds the electronic
Obama’s speech on gun safety reform, which was given in the East Room of the White House. According to Glaser and Strauss (1967), grounded theory is when researchers go into a field with no knowledge of theory on the topic that they are going to do a research on (Tierney 2016). After reading and listening to President Obama’s speech on guns safety, I have come to known that gun violence has increased in The United States and it has reached to a point where strong actions must be taken on gun laws before
In his article “Our Blind Spot about Guns,” Nicholas Kristof argues for making guns safer for the people who use them by bringing up the comparison of guns to cars; “Cars don’t kill people. People kill people,” (261). Kristof’s purpose is to address the fact that guns are not as safe as they should be and are the cause of thousands of deaths each year. Although his ideas for increasing gun safety are interesting, there is a shortcoming in the comparisons he used. In order to make a stronger argument