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"Although some parents may believe that telling their child not to play with guns will prevent injury,64 educational approaches do not appear to be effective. Hardy and colleagues found that, in a matched case-control study of four- to six-year-olds in two urban daycare centers, an intervention that included a thirty-minute presentation and instruction from a police of had no effect on modifying the children's gun-playing behavior.65 In a later randomized control study of four- to seven-yearolds involving a more intensive day gun safety program, Hardy also found that the intervention did not affect the likelihood that a child would play with a gun.66 Another study evaluating the effectiveness of two gun safety programs the NRA's Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program (mainly educational) and a behavioral skills training program (BTM) (instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and praise/corrective feedback) found that, while both programs effectively taught the four- and five year-old participants to reproduce verbally gun-safety skills, neither program effectively taught the children to use those skills in a simulated situation.67 With respect to the children exposed to the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, they also could not demonstrate the gun-safety skills in a role-play scenario, leading the authors to conclude that education alone does not ensure that the child can actually perform the skills. Even gun safety instruction targeting older children may not work. In a study to determine how boys between the ages of eight and twelve reacted when they discovered a real handgun while playing, more than 90 percent of the boys who handled the gun or pulled the trigger had received some form of gun safety instruction.68"


First off, this is another study founded by the Joyce Foundation.

Second, what are you suggesting with this? Are you saying that telling children not to play with guns does nothing to help and that she just shouldn't even try because they'll do it anyway?
"the fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen." Warren vs. The District of Columbia.