LINKS TO GUNS.COM Article HERE
LINK to Media Release via EurekaAlert.org: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/aaop-sfi101615.php
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““These results demonstrate that air guns can cause severe, yet preventable, eye injury among the pediatric population,” explained Dr. Douglas Fredrick. “To reduce rates of pediatric eye injury, both practitioners and air gun companies should promote and lobby for eye safety mandates among all air gun users. Furthermore, changes in state policy to regulate possession and usage of air guns among minors may be warranted to reduce rates of accidental injury.””
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NOT GOOD NEWS! But it seems most of the reporting on this study from Stanford University puts the cause properly in the hands of PARENTS in supervision, use and eye-pro… Interesting to see former (??)-airsoft business guy John Steele quoted in the Time article, too… Links to the various parts of the story…most will cost you money, but welcome to today’s Journo-dilemma; TIME Magazine online LINK HERE Wall Street Journal ($$) LINK HERE Stanford Medicine SCOPE website online LINK HERE Science Direct.com’s link to the original Paper ($$) from Rachel Lee and Dr. Douglas Fredrick LINK HERE
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There are not many “new findings” from this abstract of a study from Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas….involving injuries from improper use of what they term “nonpowder guns”…airsoft, BB, pellet and paintball guns & projectiles…Key Points presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual conference on October 25:
WEAR EYE PROTECTION AT ALL TIMES…
PARENTS NEED TO SUPERVISE USE BY MINORS…
AND, yet again, because many see these as “toys” and not “guns” (regardless of the supposition that airsoft and paintball guns are “powerful weapons causing increasingly severe and sometimes life-threatening injuries in pediatric patients….” yet another call to, you guessed it…legislate ‘guns.’
To wit we say…You can’t legislate away all risk, and you can’t legislate common sense. Period.