Education could be a critical tool to save more Californians from gun violence

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Guest commentary: My 15-year-old son, Kenzo, was visiting a friend of his, when the boy quietly went and got the handgun his father kept loaded and unlocked next to his bed. When he removed the magazine, he thought he’d unloaded it. 📝 griffindix

public education campaign: 48% of gun owners who saw the campaign ads about safe firearm storage changed how or where they store their firearms.

Investing in public education can have benefits in addition to more safe firearm storage. Since I lost Kenzo, I’ve met families in California that have lost children to gun suicides, mass shootings and everyday gun violence committed by people who were clearly an obvious risk to themselves or others.

In 2020, red flag laws were only filed at a rate of about 4 per 100,000 people across California. That’s roughly eight times lower than the utilization rate in Florida, which is

 

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