[Pharmboy]

I await the pediatrician's next article reviewing how children fared during the 20th Century in countries that removed guns from private possession. /sarc

[Modok]

“Our primary recommendation is that parents should remove guns from the home,”

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Excellent idea. So then for electrical safety, remove all electrical appliances and fixtures from the home and disconnect at the electric meter. For automobile safety, sell all your vehicles and stay at least 1000 ft away from all roads. If your child is going to another persons house to play make sure that an automobile is not stored at the home.

[zerosix]

"Few families store their firearms safely, according to a pediatric researcher...."

Sorry, he's a decade late and a dollar short on his "expert says" game.

I gave up paying any attention whatsoever to anyone claiming to be an "expert" about the time I quit believing in the "I'll still respect you in the morning.." and "I'll pay you back on Friday..." lines.

[theBuckwheat]

As a society, we are at far, far, greater risk of unsafe storage of liberals than anything else.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

More children under ten drown in 5-gallon buckets than are killed by "unsafely stored" firearms each year.

And a backyard pool is ten-times more dangerous.

Accidental deaths in Arizona for children, 2000-2003

1. Drowning: 140
2. Gunshot wound: 15

[L98Fiero]

“Over 70 percent of the families surveyed reported not storing their firearms safely in their residence,” DuRant said.

Well then, where are the piles of corpses? They contend that this causes death and injury so where are the dead and injured?

[Joe Brower]

"We are encouraging all pediatricians to talk with parents about safe gun storage practices"

Also be sure to ask your pediatrician about the status of their liability insurance should following their advice lead to tragedy, since by assuming this role of caretaker they also assume legal culpability if that advice causes harm.

[Still Thinking]

Researcher says few families report safe firearm storage

Still Thinking says researchers don't get to define "safe firearm storage" and pretend it's news that the rest of us don't jump to comply, just like MADD doesn't get to push the govt to lower legal BAL levels then use the "drastic increase in drunk driving" as fodder for fund-raising.

[BuffaloJack]

Twenty-two years ago, I greeted a burglar entering my home and I had no weapons in hand. I wound up with his knife (actually a bayonet) stuck in my shoulder. Ever since, I investigate all nighttime noises with a 12 gage in hand.

[PeterPrinciple]

“We are encouraging all pediatricians to talk with parents about safe gun storage practices,” he said. “We want to prevent unnecessary deaths.”

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Peter Principle in Action Award.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Remember Waco, it was about protecting the children. Their deaths were caused by the government. Perfectly acceptable./Extreme S

[pabianice]

I’d start giving his patients medical advice in his waiting room. After all, you’d be as qualified to give medical advice as he is to give firearms advice.

[LIConFem]

More fearmongering aimed at rendering firearms ownership and the Second Amendment socially unacceptable.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H.L. Mencken

[AD from SpringBay]

When somebody says, “None of your business,” I bet they put him down under the ‘No safe storage’ category.

[newcthem]

I would wager the farm, that far more children (even NOT counting abortion) have died from doctors screw-ups , than from fire-arms, but of course we wouldn’t want to discuss that fact now would we?

[Teacher317]

Their definition of “safe” is likely far differnt from mine.

[TC Rider]

This is a totally bogus survey.

Those surveyed were ‘self-selected’. Most responsible gun owners would have answered ‘no guns’, or refused to take the survey, tilting the results.

This is no better than an internet survey.

[longtermmemmory]

translation “we tried the ‘citizen have rights’ and ‘citizens can be responsible’ approach so now we want to do the ‘citizens can’t be trusted with rights’ approach”

Big Brother loves you (/s)

[Tax-chick]

I wouldn’t tell anyone about my guns if they asked.

[Atlas Sneezed]

“Firearm ownership was highest in families with two adults in the home, according to the study. “

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I see they couldn’t avoid finding an association between these two beneficial factors in society.

[TalonDJ]

"We want to prevent unnecessary deaths."
Me too. That is why they are loaded and scattered liberally around the house.