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A 2-year-old Tampa boy shot himself in the chest with a loaded 9 mm he found in his parent's couch while playing.
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If they had properly locked away the incidents could have being avoided.
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Of your four anecdotes, two are from felons and two from cops.
Cops are excluded and indemnified in almost all US jurisdictions from gun safe lock laws where present.
Felons are the exact data set that get included in statistics and perverts studies of gun accidents in homes.
Take away felons and gun owner homes, including homes with children, are SAFER than the general population.
your anecdote and your statistics are prime examples of flawed thinking not of actual gun safety.
In almost all US jurisdictions new guns are must by law come with locks. Those locks provide a FALSE sense of security.
IN the US almost all large safes are now extremely cheap easy to defeat Chinese made safes which are manufactured under the big box store's primary qualification -- cheap price.
AS I have said in prior posts the problem is all the statistics and anecdotes don't educate the gun owners, since they promulgated by anti gun groups and people and are fake or outliers they miseducate them
Manta haw now repeated cited the 500 children killed in gun accidents per year claim, when in fact the is a number comes out of thin air an din truth is inflated by a factor of ten, along with the anecdotes that turn out to reflect episodes tied to police or felons.
Safes are part of the solution some of the time.
requiring $4000 safes in bedrooms for handguns is part of the strategy to increase costs of weapons. No one is going to do that.