>> STUDY: GUNS NO SAFER WHEN LOCKED UP

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Trigger locks and gun safes don’t reduce the number of gun
accidents, and they actually put gun owners and their families in
greater danger, a new report says.

“What happens is it makes them more vulnerable to crime,” said
John R. Lott, Jr., a University of Chicago Law School professor
who has published the study Safe-Storage Gun Laws: Accidental
Deaths, Suicide and Crime. “Criminals become more emboldened to
attack people in their home.”

Lott cited a Merced, Calif. family whose guns were put away
because of the state’s safe storage law. John Carpenter, who lost
two children in an attack in 2000, said a gun would have stopped
the man who broke into his home with a pitchfork.

“If a gun had been here, today I’d have at least a daughter
alive,” Carpenter said.