[LibFreeOrDie]

Not only parents, but also neighbors:

“The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is proud to collaborate with PAX on the ASK Campaign and help promote its important message.”

“The ASK Campaign (Asking Saves Kids) provides a concrete solution to an indisputable problem. Over 40% of American homes with children have guns, many of them are kept unlocked and loaded, and every year thousands of children are killed or injured in shootings involving these guns. The ASK Campaign encourages parents to ask their neighbors if they have a gun in the home before sending their children over to play. The power of this campaign is that it enrolls all Americans concerned with the welfare of children, including gun owners, and makes a discussion about public safety and good parenting part of the solution to gun violence.”

“ASK Day
ASK Day—an annual national day of focus on the life-saving, public health message of the ASK (”Asking Saves Kids”) Campaign. The ASK Campaign is a public education collaboration between the AAP and PAX—an organization offering real solutions to gun violence, that urges parents to ask about guns where their children play. ASK Day comes as summer approaches and children will be out of school spending more time playing at friends’ houses.”

http://www.aap.org/advocacy/PAXASK.htm

Here’s the PAXUSA.org Board (usual lefty celebs):

http://paxusa.org/about/board.html

And here’s AAP’s own Web page on guns:

http://www.aap.org/family/tipp-firearms.htm

[Pikachu_Dad]

If you think that is bad, check out the UCAPA bill the Uniform Law people are seeking to implement in all 50 states. (Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act).

Presumed innocent - gone.

Gestapo cop tactics allowed - check.

[Carry_Okie]

Over 40% of American homes with children have guns, many of them are kept unlocked and loaded, and every year thousands of children are killed or injured in shootings involving these guns.

Oh really? And how many "thousands" of kids injured by their parents' "improperly-stored" guns would that be?

What a crock. The vast bulk of kids injured by firearms are gang-bangers who own illegal guns and it sure as hell isn't "thousands." I'd sure like to know the name of the creep at the AAP who cooked up this garbage.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were a total of only 37,000 children who suffered violent deaths between 1976 and 1994, or a little over a thousand per year. I'd hazard that it's a small fraction that were killed with firearms at all, much less by their parents' guns.

[ccmay]

I wonder if these insiffereable busybodies inquire about swimming pools, which are each statistically about 20 times more likely to take a child’s life than a gun.

[Atlas Sneezed]

every year thousands of children are killed or injured in shootings involving these guns.

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No, every year a small number of CHILDREN are killed by THOSE guns.

Thousands of adolescent and young adult criminals are killed by other guns that are normally carried in the waistbands of their criminal rivals.