Gun Safety in Homes with Children

By Samuetta Hill Drew To all of our readers, we hope you and your families had a safe and wonderful 2023 holiday season. As we prepare for this new year of 2024, we want to continue to keep an eye on safety by taking all types of safety precautions for ourselves, our families and our loved ones as we live our daily lives. With safety being one of our ultimate goals, 2024 will begin talking about safety for children who are an extension of us. So, as we want to be safe so should we want our children to be equally safe. The first article will discuss gun safety at homes with children. It was so tragically sad when the news would broadcast how a young child in Birmingham was killed at home by a gun accident. Where realistically we know articles will not guarantee gun safety at homes with children, we can believe it will encourage some households to take greater safety measures. Some readers may question why begin this new year with such a topic? The response is simple: Let’s look at America’s statistics which can reflect our own state, county and/or city. Roughly a third of American...