Safe Storage Isn’t So Safe.

Now that the White House has decided that gun control is an issue which might actually sway some votes in November from people who are sick and tired of the endless mass shootings which keep occurring on a regular basis, rather than wait around for Congress to act on a gun-control bill which they never will, the President is using his ability to deal with the problem through the issuance of Executive Orders which often have the appearance of being laws when in fact they are just things he would like the Federal agencies to do.

The latest Executive Order related to guns came out last year and one of the issues addressed in the Order focused on safe storage of guns: “the Secretary of Defense; the Attorney General; the Secretary of Homeland Security; the Secretary of Health and Human Services, including through the Surgeon General of the United States; the Secretary of Education; and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall expand existing Federal campaigns and other efforts to promote safe storage of firearms.”

Yesterday, the White House issued a statement pushing the safe storage strategy further, by calling on the Department of Justice to publish a guide in safe storage and for the Department of Education to encourage discussions about this issue among parents and communities and “encourage more people to take preventive action by safely storing firearms.”