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"I wonder if we could ever implement a law that covers those who own the gun that wasn't put away safely so the kid got hold of it and..."
27 States and D.C. have Child Access Prevention Laws (CAP) and there is some evidence that this correlates with lower rates of accidents, suicide, and violence involving youth with guns. Many of the laws are narrowly constructed, and it is only logical that if firearms were even better secured on average less of these incidents would occur. Gun control is not intended to be a panacea, but it is intended to be preventative like taking aspirin for heart disease.
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