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Children and Gun Safety: Education Is the Key
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New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
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"Few children under the age of eight can reliably distinguish between real and toy guns or fully understand the consequences of an accidental shooting, yet kids as young as three are strong enough to pull the trigger of many handguns. When you put these two statistics together you get one very frightening reality." ...
"Dr. Collins is a pathologist ... Through her practice, she sees the devastating effects guns can have on children."
"Most unintentional firearm-related deaths among children occur in or around the home ..."
"If you have a gun in your home ... teach your children to use guns safely and responsibly. ... Once the mystery surrounding firearms is gone, potential incidents can be avoided." ... -------
KABA Note: Accidental firearm deaths among children in the given age range (3 - 8) averaged 21 per year from 1999 - 2003. Accidental drownings for the same group in the same period were 281 per year. While firearms safety training is always a good idea, perhaps swimming lessons would be more beneficial. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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