The Lake Forest Park Police Department, in partnership with regional law enforcement, the King County Department of Health, and area retailers, have created the Safe Storage Saves Lives campaign designed to prevent deadly shootings, unintentional injuries and theft by focusing on secure firearm storage.
The numbers are staggering:
• From 2007 – 2011, 107 youth (age 17 or younger) committed suicide in Washington; 49 of these youth (36%) died from firearms. During this period, 22 youth committed suicide in King County; 8 youth (36%) used firearms.
(WA Department of Health, Fatal Injury Data Tables, March 2013)
• In 2009, firearms were present in approximately 24% of King County households (183,300 homes), the largest percentage in 13 years. Among households with firearms, an estimated 23.2% (39,100 households) stored them loaded and 14.7% (25,095 households) stored them loaded AND unlocked.
(WA Department of Health, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Jan. 2011)
• In 2009 an estimated 5,800 King County children lived in homes where firearms were stored loaded and unlocked.
(WA Department of Health, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Jan. 2011)
For more information regarding this program and to find local retailers that are giving discounts for storage devices, go to the following website.
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