It doesnt, and they are.How does "safe storage" prevent the owner of the firearm from committing suicide or unlawful acts? Are they not the ones with the key to the safe?
What does that have to do with encouraging safe storage?
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It doesnt, and they are.How does "safe storage" prevent the owner of the firearm from committing suicide or unlawful acts? Are they not the ones with the key to the safe?
Wonder where that curling iron is going now. Eeeew.Curling iron was like " okay, if you think this will make a difference Chinderella".
Karen, is that you?!
You ask "What does that have to do with encouraging safe storage?"It doesnt, and they are.
What does that have to do with encouraging safe storage?
the study is pretty weak. I don't see how safe storage will prevent suicides or even decrease the risk. That metric in itself is steeped in gun control agendas.You ask "What does that have to do with encouraging safe storage?"
It is the subject of the study in which the article linked in the OP is based upon.
From the study in question:
Abstract
Background
Unsafe storage of firearms is associated with increased risk of suicide.. However, contemporary population-based data on the prevalence and correlates of firearm storage practices among veterans are limited.
I am fine with encouraging safe storage too. I am against dictating what safe storage actually is, however. You need to determine what "safe" is according to your own goals and circumstances. Simply asking on a survey "do you lock up your firearms in an approved firearms storage device?" (or whatever similar question is on basically every "safe storage" servery out there) is not a determining factor for if you firearms are stored safely. Yet all these studies, news articles and eventually laws do assume that is the only determining criteria. This is why people get pissed when ignorant news personalities and politicians talk about "safe storage." They are assuming only their definition of the term is correct, and that is the part people are taking issue with.the study is pretty weak. I don't see how safe storage will prevent suicides or even decrease the risk. That metric in itself is steeped in gun control agendas.
Im ok with encouraging safe storage though. The article doesnt express any safe storage or red flag laws that I read.
This is true and I agree with.Suspicion toward the article (deserved or not, according to its intent) is easily understood when one recognizes our Government has already advised us in no uncertain terms that gun ownership should be regarded as a disease (an entire governmental agency devoted itself to that), and Veterans should be scrutinized as on the governmental list of likely domestic terrorists.
Safety and equity are two things used ( or should I say abused) for political agendas because they have virtually no limits.Something I see is a mentality in government where "safety" is used as an excuse for wielding power for it's own benefit.
Well that kinda changes the context of the survey findings. Apparently people like to keep their guns readily accessible when they've learned firsthand how dangerous the world can be.According to the survey, veterans with a history of depression or substance use were more likely to store firearms unsafely, as were those who had directly experienced a personal trauma, such an assault.