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The authors of the study say parents should follow the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations regarding firearms.

“The AAP recommends that the safest home for a family is a home without guns,” said study co-author Dr. Robert Sege, a pediatrician and director of the division of family and child advocacy at Boston Medical Center. “If there is a gun in the home, the gun should be stored unloaded and locked, and the ammunition should be stored separately.”

Benjamin said society as a whole should place renewed emphasis on making guns safer.

“We’ve made cars much, much safer without outlawing cars,” he said. “A comprehensive strategy which makes firearms safer and people safer with their firearms would dramatically reduce firearm deaths and injuries.”

The new study was published online Jan. 27 and in the February print issue of Pediatrics.

Study: Black Boys Hospitalized 10 Times More For Gun Injuries  was originally published on blackdoctor.org

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