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‘Asking Saves Kids’: June 21 is National ASK Day
Cheyenne - Safe Kids Wyoming joins gun safety advocates in urging parents to ask whether there are firearms in the homes where their children play. National ASK Day, June 21, is proclaimed by the Asking Saves Kids campaign to remind parents to ask, “Is there a gun where my child plays?”
Approximately one out of three U.S. households with children contains at least one gun. Each year, in the United States, approximately 60 children ages 14 and under is killed by accidental gunshots, and more than 730 go to the emergency room with injuries from gun-related accidents. This does not include the approximate 6,600 injured in accidents involving BB guns and other air-powered arms.
“Kids should not have access to guns,” says Stephanie Heitsch, Safe Kids Wyoming and Cheyenne Regional Injury Prevention coordinator. “More than half of the parents surveyed, who own guns and have children ages 4-12, said they keep a loaded or unlocked gun in the home.”
According to a survey conducted in 2002 commissioned by the ASK campaign, 97 percent of parents who own guns would not feel uncomfortable if asked about the presence of a gun in their home by another parent, yet 53 percent of parents said they had never asked.
“Parents should ask the adults in any homes their children visit whether there’s a gun in the home and if so ask if it is locked up where children can’t get to it. Teach kids not to touch a gun and to tell an adult if they find one. Most kids cannot tell the difference between a real handgun and a realistic-looking toy,” states Heitsch.
Safe Kids Wyoming is strictly focused on the prevention of accidental injury. With that in mind, Heitsch recommends that all parents “weigh the risks of keeping a gun in the home.”
Safe gun storage means:
- Guns are unloaded and ammunition locked up in a separate place
Guns are locked in a safe or lockbox or fitted with a trigger lock
Keys or combinations to gun locks and ammo boxes should be stored out of reach of children
BB guns, pellet guns and other non-powder guns stored the same way as firearms
Safe Kids Wyoming works to prevent accidental childhood injury, the leading killer of children 14 and under. Safe Wyoming is a member of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations dedicated to preventing accidental injury.
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