In homes with guns, the homicide of a household member is almost three times more likely to occur than in homes without guns.

Guns kept in the home for self-protection are 43 times more likely to kill someone known to you verses a stranger in self-defense.

Nearly one out of every four households in the United States has at least one handgun.

By the year 2001, gun fire injury is projected to surpass motor vehicle injury as the leading cause of traumatic death in the United States.

In 1997, 32436 deaths occurred as a result of a firearm in the USA.

4223 were children UNDER the age of 20.

306 of those were determined to be unintentional shootings.

85% of ALL homicides were committed with a firearm.

63% of ALL suicides were committed with a firearm.

I realized that we have a problem in our country, but like so many others, it wasn't my problem and i didn't want to get involved. Unfortunately it took losing my youngest child and only son to a gunshot on 6/30/99, to make me stand up and do something about it.

With our training program we plan to teach everyone from the youngest child at preschool to the grandparents and great-grandparents at the adult living communities.

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