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Discover simple ways you can help prevent gun injuries before they happen. Explore how even small, individual actions can help keep children and teens safe.

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Freedom Jones: “We have an opportunity to save a child’s life.”
Hear from Freedom Jones, Senior Community Violence Intervention Advisor at LifeBridge Health’s Center for Hope, as she explains that the golden hour is the opportunity to save someone and do something better. This is our golden hour.
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Dr. Emmy Betz: “Suicide is Preventable”
Hear from Dr. Emmy Betz, an ER doctor and Director of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative at the University of Colorado, as she shares why suicide is preventable and the simple steps we can all take to help keep kids safe.
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Dr. Brendan Campbell: “The one thing I want more firearm owners to know is that secure storage saves lives.”
Hear from Dr. Brendan Campbell, a gun-owning Director of Pediatric Trauma at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, as he shares why we should think about firearm safety the same as we think about car seats and seatbelts.
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Julvonnia McDowell: “We want our children to grow old. We have to start the conversation today.”
Hear from Julvonnia McDowell, gun safety advocate in Georgia, as she shares the importance of having conversations about firearms in the home after losing her son.
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The Number One
Four people with personal experience of how firearm injuries are taking the lives of our kids share their number one piece of advice for how we can prevent this.
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