As we walked away from the soccer field that night, my son and my niece sang a little jingle about gun safety that they had learned at school. One could see our experience as evidence that gun safety education works. Certainly, teaching children safe behavior around guns makes sense, given that American children have more access to guns than children in any other developed country. Gun safety education usually falls into two categories. But research shows that even in these programs, children frequently did not retain the skills they had learned after several weeks.

Source: Huffington Post September 17, 2025 13:18 UTC