This should go well
Matthew Miller, associate director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and co-author of a new study on gun safety in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, will be online Tuesday, May 30, at 2 p.m. ET to discuss gun safety in families’ homes. He will also field questions and comments about the study.
We wouldn’t want the NRA or some gun people teaching gun safety. You an submit questions.
Update: It’s possible the guy is a gun expert, of course. But based on his bio, that would suprise me.
May 29th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
It used to be that several generations of women were taught that it was better to bottlefeed a baby than to breastfeed. Now it’s completely the opposite. As a result of doctors convincing their patients to bottlefeed, younger doctors (of which I am one) are now taking the burden upon themselves of teaching young women to breastfeed, because their mothers don’t know how.
I’ve seen kids in the hospital who have been injured by guns. Every single one of the accidents was an accident that could have been prevented by proper teaching of how to handle a gun safely. (By the way, we see accidents from other things besides guns. Lawnmowers, for example. But I see no legislation against those.)
It strikes me that there’s probably a whole generation of people, if not more, who are scared to teach their kids how to safely and responsibly handle a gun. Instead of teaching them, pediatricians are counseling parents to avoid having guns in the home at all.
I find it a little sad and scary that the end result seems to be a generation of kids who view guns as mysterious, and still don’t know how to properly and responsibly handle a gun. Is it possible in the future, that education (not banning) will be promoted instead? If the breastfeeding and circumcision recommendations have changed over the decades, perhaps the ideas on guns will as well.
May 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Ayup. I’m counting down the days to taking my kids shooting.
May 30th, 2006 at 9:00 am
[…] I told you about the guy having the gun safety thing at the WaPo. Well, some more: A new study involving 201 parents and an equal number of their children has found that 39 percent of kids knew the location of their parents’ firearms, while 22 percent said they had handled the weapons, despite their parents’ assertions to the contrary. Parents who had talked to their children about gun safety were just as likely to be misinformed about their children’s actions as those who said they never had discussed the matter. […]
May 30th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
I asked a question.
I asked if my low SN 1903 would be safe with modern factory ammo.
He is a safety expert, right?
May 30th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Heh!
May 30th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
And since I’m at work, I also asked what he’d suggest for a first “home” gun, especially for a woman.
May 30th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
(15 minutes in, and 1 answered question… I don’t think they’re burning up the optic cables…)
May 30th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
The NCVS data show that: (1) gun use in self-defense is very rare; (2) it is not clear whether resistance will or will not reduce the likelihood of injury; and (3) two of the most common forms of “resistance” also appear to be the most successful in terms of reducing the likelihood of injury—calling the police or running away (Hemenway 2005).
Yeah. But Let Me Guess *think think think* HE DOESN’T WANT TO BAN GUNS!
May 30th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
What’s an SN 1903?
Is it a Springfield 1903?
I should know this, but I probably need a little more gun education.
May 30th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Chris:
Low-serial (Below 800,000) Springfield 1903, yes.
After that SN, they changed the heat-treatment methods.