2aguy
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When you teach kids gun safety, they are much safer around guns......so, of course, the anti-gun extremists...who need dead children to push gun control....oppose any attempt to keep kids safe from unattended guns......
Children who had seen the gun safety video were 28% less likely to touch the gun and held the gun for less than half the time if they did touch it. They were also over 20% less likely to pull the trigger, and those who did pulled the trigger fewer times.
“That’s an impressive intervention,” Fleegler added. “These are the types of interventions that can be delivered on a mass scale.”
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The bad news is that more than half of the kids who took part in the study still picked up one of the guns, but considering their only exposure to that message of “stop, don’t touch, run away, and tell an adult” was a one-minute video they’d seen a week earlier it’s still a substantial improvement over what was seen in the control group.
A more sustained campaign to drill that message into kids would likely be even more successful, and that messaging can start much earlier than the 8-to-12-year-olds who took part in the study. In fact, I’d say that education should start as early as possible, because these tragedies can involve kids who are far younger, like Serenity Robinson; a five-year-old in Columbus, Ohio who was killed when she picked up her dad’s unsecured (and illegally possessed) handgun in 2021. .
Children who had seen the gun safety video were 28% less likely to touch the gun and held the gun for less than half the time if they did touch it. They were also over 20% less likely to pull the trigger, and those who did pulled the trigger fewer times.
“That’s an impressive intervention,” Fleegler added. “These are the types of interventions that can be delivered on a mass scale.”
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The bad news is that more than half of the kids who took part in the study still picked up one of the guns, but considering their only exposure to that message of “stop, don’t touch, run away, and tell an adult” was a one-minute video they’d seen a week earlier it’s still a substantial improvement over what was seen in the control group.
A more sustained campaign to drill that message into kids would likely be even more successful, and that messaging can start much earlier than the 8-to-12-year-olds who took part in the study. In fact, I’d say that education should start as early as possible, because these tragedies can involve kids who are far younger, like Serenity Robinson; a five-year-old in Columbus, Ohio who was killed when she picked up her dad’s unsecured (and illegally possessed) handgun in 2021. .
