A Texas man was arrested after authorities say he placed a loaded gun in a 4-year-old special needs student’s backpack before dropping her off at school. A potential disaster was averted, and no injuries were reported thanks to the quick work of a teacher and school administrators who were able to identify the danger early … Read more
In further evidence of Americans’ waning attention spans, the once annual ritual of gun control activists and their media lackeys manipulating CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid about children and firearms has become semiannual. This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 0-14. Step two, … Read more
By Thomas E. Gift, MD Finally, a researcher whose work seems to support, rather the attack, Second Amendment rights. David Schwebel, a psychology professor, and his associates describe a training program to improve children’s ability to safely deal with guns. Perhaps surprising to those who read academic studies regarding firearms, they imply that children’s exposure to firearms … Read more
By Elizabeth McGuigan It seems every public health journal is obligated to publish one junk-science article on kids and guns per year. The latest is a “study” published in Pediatrics called “State Gun Laws and Pediatric Firearm-Related Mortality.” It is in the headlines, and it is a mess. Through a series of deliberately terrible study … Read more
On today’s episode of Your Vehicle is Not a Gun Safe, tragedy struck: Police have released more information about the shooting of 5-year-old outside a Wendy’s restaurant in North Carolina on Sunday. The boy is in critical condition after being shot in the face, according to WGHP. The boy, described as about 5 years old, … Read more
Wait…say what? Kids can trade their toy guns for other toys…in a program aiming to change the culture around gun ownership, organizers say. Each child can receive one toy for whatever water pistols, Nerf guns and other toy guns they turn in. The new toys are being donated by Sean Acosta of Oyster Bay, a … Read more
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