This week, HCI Chair Sarah Brady directed her ire toward NRA's gun safety efforts, in what appeared to be an attack on our Eddie Eagle GunSafe ProgramŽ. Responding to our televised invitation to those participating in the "Million Mom March" to join our national gun safety campaign by matching our one million dollar pledge to put gun safety programs in every school in America, Brady nonsensically declared that "'gun safety' classes won't save the 2-year-old who doesn't even realize that a gun is a gun when he finds it under his parents' mattress." Thanks in large part to the Eddie Eagle Program, which has reached over 13 million school children, it is precisely these kinds of tragic gun accidents among children that have fallen to an all time low. Brady's solutions to the problem? Among others she calls for licensing, registration, and giving a federal bureaucracy arbitrary authority over the design of firearms. While Brady's gun safety efforts are limited to marching in D.C. on Mother's Day, we will continue to bring our gun safety programs to Americans all across the country.
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