Support safe storage for guns

Nice try Kelly. The vast majority of deaths due to gun violence among children are perpetrated by youthful criminals who would not know storage from a load of hay. Also, most deaths among our children are due to drug overdoses. While storage improvement would not hurt, it would have a negligible effect on our drug infused suicide and murder rates. We need to focus on removing criminals and drugs from our society, not on band-aids that the original author so myopically proposes.

Kelly – thanks for your letter. I consider my Safe Storage location to be my residence (a locked container). Not only does it store my guns and firearms, it also stores my other potentially fatal weapons locked up - knives, screwdrivers, any other “pointy” things including pens and pencils, baseball bats, golf clubs, etc. Fortunately, all of these self-defense weapons are easily accessed within seconds. As for unintentional use, as long as you’ve taught your family how to safely handle guns, knives, and all the other potentially fatal objects in the home (and even in the driveway or the garage), you’ve been a responsible parent. If you haven’t taught your family how to safely handle weapons, at least for guns, invest in a biometric gun safe (be sure to load the gun before storage) as accessing a loaded gun is much quicker than disabling a trigger lock, loading the gun, and racking the slide to potentially discharge it. Do not, I repeat, do not use a trigger lock on a loaded gun – accidental discharge). And imagine trying to find the key or remembering the combination to a gun safe in an emergency situation. Unlike with the writer says, this takes much longer than a few seconds. A few seconds between life and potential death.