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Gun Control & RKBA

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sarisataka

(18,755 posts)
Mon May 11, 2015, 08:33 PM May 2015

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A gun control organization is finally doing something that can help reduce accidental deaths.

http://besmartforkids.org/ - has a quiz that, if you sign up to support them, they will donate a gun lock to be distributed at a future safety event. At this time their total is at 15,958. Other resources are available on the site.

Now one could be cynical about it since you have to sign up as a supporter for them to donate a lock. (Project ChildSafe http://www.projectchildsafe.org/ developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) has distriubted 36 million locks and accepts donations without you having to sign up as a supporter.)
But it is at least a first step by a "gun safety" organization that can have a direct safety effect.

The other resources should likely be take with a grain of salt. The quiz has a question about kids in homes with unsecured firearms. It clearly gives the answer as 1.7 million, per Everytown data. Yet the notanaccident page claims the number is over 2 million.

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Credit where it is due... [View all] sarisataka May 2015 OP
They want you on the mailing list. oneshooter May 2015 #1
Not to question sarisataka May 2015 #2
Two years have gone by sarisataka May 2017 #11
I always support attempts at safe gun storage at home... Eleanors38 May 2015 #3
I've been following sarisataka May 2015 #4
Update sarisataka Apr 2016 #5
I opened one of those cable locks with two small rocks, by banging them together over the cable AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #7
Secure? Straw Man Apr 2016 #8
Fair enough. No one lock is perfect for all guns. AtheistCrusader Apr 2016 #9
Better than nothing sarisataka Apr 2016 #10
we used to have some anti that argued against Safes and locks. ileus Apr 2016 #6
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