Report Finds Gun Safety Programs Fail To Protect Kids BY HELEN RUMBELOW, THE WASHINGTON POST Friday, July 19, 2002 Gun safety programs aimed at young people do not work and have done little to reduce the 20,000 children killed or injured by guns in the United States every year, a foundation report says. Children's curiosity and teenagers' love of risks makes them extremely resistant to efforts to persuade them not to handle guns, such as the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle campaigns as well as programs by gun control advocates, it found. In some cases these programs may have increased...