Publication Date: September 27, 2007
What does it say?
Forty percent of the women interviewed reported that at least one gun in the house was stored unlocked. Yet, 88 percent of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed “it is wisest to keep a gun stored in a locked place, and 72 percent reported that their husbands thought the gun should be stored in a locked place." Most of the women (63 percent) leave the decision on how to store the gun to their husbands, and 90 percent reported that their husbands owned the gun.
How can I use it?
These results can be used to document to the public and to policymakers that, most married gun owners with children in the house believe that guns should be locked up, yet most do not lock up their guns.
Citation
RM Johnson, CW Runyan, T Coyne-Beasley, MA Lewis, JM Bowling, “Storage of Household Firearms: an Examination of the Attitudes and Beliefs of Married Women with Children. Health Education Research (September 22, 2007)
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