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ren under 14 years of age, Dr. Fears, local Health Director, reported yesterday in a special warning to father.
Over 600 children lost their lives in firearm accidents during 1958 and probably 100 percent of these were preventable, the health director said.
The local department of public health is highlighting firearm safety as part of its year-round crusade to prevent the tragic killing and crippling of children in home area accidents.
“Children have a natural curiosity and fascination for guns—,a curiosity magnified on every hand by television, movies, comic books, and toys,” Dr. Fears explained. “Children who play “cops and robbers” with ‘unloaded’ guns are playing a game of death.”
He said that the only sure way to prevent firearm accidents is to keep guns and ammunition under lock and key at all times. "Use extreme caution in cleaning, loading and unloading grins.” He warned fathers never to keep firearms, especially pistols, in (daces easily accessible to children, such as unlocked closets and drawers, night stands, auto glove compartments and under mattresses.
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