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LA County to explore distribution of gun locks at hospitals

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Nov. 21, advanced a proposal that would allow doctors and nurses at county-run hospitals to distribute free gun locks in an effort to promote firearm safety.

“Gun locks can save lives — especially in households with children,” Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a statement after the vote. “Some studies have found that people are more likely to use gun locks if they are given to them by their doctor or in a medical center to take home and I think it is a concept we should explore for our own County hospitals.”

The board unanimously approved a motion by Hahn and Supervisor Hilda Solis that calls on county staff to explore ways of implementing the distribution system, similar to programs operating in other hospitals around the country. The county Department of Public Health’s Office of Violence Prevention and the Department of Health Services was directed to provide a written report within 45 days about the number of county-operated hospitals and medical campuses, the number of gun locks that would be needed to begin the program and a proposed procedure for distribution.

The report will also include a proposed timeline for purchasing the locks and the resources needed to obtain them.

“If guns are not safely stored or locked, it can lead to devastating and fatal consequences,” Solis said in a statement. “Gun owners may assume that their families know how to handle a gun, however, if it’s not safely stored or locked, serious injuries or death may result. Hospitals are where many victims end up, and to that end, we can use the opportunity to both educate and provide them with a tangible resource to better protect them and their families from guns — gun locks.”

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45 comments for "LA County to explore distribution of gun locks at hospitals"

  1. Check the current gun laws, this is a waste of time and money.
    Any household with children under 18 are required to have some type of safe or locking system.
    Plus, if someone brings in their child who has been shot or someone shot by their child will not want to hear from the doctor: “Here, take this gun lock, it will prevent it from happening again.”
    You’re going to give these to people after the fact? Nothing like calling someone dumb while they are down.

  2. LA county, five county supervisors have so much money too hide and bury that they have to come up with such a lame pork belly idea when in fact it would be more important too push for these same gun locks too come with every gun license application. Put that asphalt skimming money to better use.

    • Actually, the current law is that any gun purchased will have a gun lock with it. So this is kind of useless.

      • Agreed. As I stated just another of many pork belly ideas too shuffle and hide the misappropriation that truly goes on with LA County.

  3. These locks normally come with legally purchased and owned firearms. Why not step it up and purchase everyone with a gun safe?

    Perhaps then, the freaking lowlifes that own guns that shouldn’t will forget the combo on one of their drug induced binges and forced to call out locksmith that they can’t afford. Same logic.

  4. What the board of Stupidvisors have run out of things to waste money on? It isn’t the lack of safety devises that cause firearm deaths! It is hoodlums using them in criminal activities! Put that money into Law enforcement! I am sure Timay will have something cute say!

    • When firearms are used by criminals it is usually on criminals, so no one really has any reason to care. Gun locks help reduce the really sad gun deaths, like toddlers shooting their parents or siblings, so they are a good thing.

      Do you think that was “cute”?

  5. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING !

    SAY THE FIVE SILLY WOMEN RULING OVER US ALL –

    GUN LOCKS ARE STUPID –

    EXCUSE ME MISTER KILLER WHILE I UNLOCK MY GUN –

    DARN ! WRONG KEY –

    NOW WHERE DID I LOCK UP THOSE BULLETS ?

    VOTE OUT SUCH SILLYNESS FOLKS !

    WHEN YOU NEED A GUN, YOU WANT IT POINTED, LOADED AND IN YOUR HAND –

    MAYBE PROMOTING VOLUNTARY GUN SAFETY CLASSES FOR THOSE THAT CARE ?

    BUT NOT MANDATED BY WANNA BE DICTATORS OUT TO SAVE US ALL –

    WHETHER WE WANT TO BE SAVED OR NOT –

    ***

    • “SAY THE FIVE SILLY WOMEN RULING OVER US ALL”

      4… minus Tim

      He’s to scared of firearms, he actually prefers passing off threatening letters to unassuming young women bank tellers for his crimes.

      Probably worried he might actually shoot himself.

      • LOL…another obsessed clown making up stories, all about me. Check in with Templer…you two are like soulmates.

        • You’re the one that’s obviously obsessed. I hadn’t replied to you in this thread at all. You confuse me with your former cell mate.

          • So your begging cup is fiction then, you didn’t rob banks? Or are you saying you did it with hand signs. I’m confused now.

          • It’s funny all the people you like to call stupid here but yet it was you that robbed banks in your thirties. Nuff said.

          • LOL…and what adventures were you having in your thirties? In my thirties I was calming down. In my twenties is when I was REALLY wild.

          • You genuinely cannot read, can you? Yeah, I was robbing banks in my thirties. That part of my life is an open book. But I was REALLY wild in my twenties. Those adventures I won’t put in writing. But back to you…have you EVER done anything interesting?

          • At least Tim paid his debt to society. The Fern Street Mafia has sucked millions out of the AV in all sorts of shady and illegal deals with no penalty in sight. Until the FBI wraps up its investigation. Grab some popcorn, folks. It’s going to be very interesting.

          • One I would never read your begging cup of a book, I might spy it at the Palmdale library just to deface it, but all my research is based on your blathering boasting as if any of your accomplishments amount to a decade of achievement. Fortunately I can’t fit even fraction of my life in this box. I’m sure my travels alone equal your life. My education equals your life, my stint in the Marines equals your life. But yet that’s just 3% of mine. Bank robber, used car salesman and a fictional begging cup of a book. LMAO

          • I don’t live in Lake LA timmy , but I do own 3 houses and 4 large properties,in the AV my 1800sq ft sound proof studio and the hifi in it is worth more than your whole life I’ll wager, so is my 3,000 sq ft Machine shop. Still have the same first step I always had.

          • If you read so well timmy you should read over your replies again, you made no sense, “I was wild in my 20s” but I calmed down in my thirties” robbing banks is calming down? I can read just fine. I just don’t get your idea of slipping threatening notes to vulnerable female bank tellers as an adventure or accomplishment. But then again wasn’t it you that said here once that people shouldn’t go to work when it rains, truly don’t know what work is at all. THATS WHY YOU ROBBED BANKS IN YOUR 30s and brag about it today. Read that.

          • LOL…it’s absolutely hilarious that you cannot even imagine anything wilder than robbing banks.

          • I can imagine a lot more better things than robbing a bank, that just proves your a wasto. truly brain dead

          • Finding 600,000$ behind 3/8 plywood and a 2$ lock on Wiloughby Av in 1992 and it’s alls yours if you can move it all in 3 days is far more satisfying than the measly scat that earned you a cold cell and 3+ yrs of m-crack viewing. Just one example. It’s amazing that you think that’s something. That’s sad.

          • Keeping 600,000$ in carnival glass if you can move it in three days was pretty exciting for me 1992. Right about the time you robbed your 3rd bank. 600,000 then 1.5 mil now.

          • I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

          • So you didn’t use a gun or didn’t get caught with one and now you claim you didn’t give the teller a note, verbal? Hand signals?

          • Wow….look how imaginative you can be!!! You’ve recognized that robbing a bank doesn’t necessarily require a note!!!

            Next step, what would be better than using a note, and why? Think of it as homework.

            Meanwhile…

            Thank you Templer. I got a pretty useful insight today from our sparring. I appreciate your tenacity for sticking with it long enough for that to happen, because I’m pretty sure that unlike me you don’t enjoy it.

            See ya in the funny papers!

        • My whole life, far more successful and contributing than you. You argued my point but yet it was spot on.

          • I wouldn’t and don’t knock where people live that’s not right. People live where they live. But again as usual you’re wrong I don’t live there. But have you ever left Lancaster? And I don’t mean your time in Bakersfield or the college stay in that federal cell. Just asking you’re so narrow minded, I mean there’s more to life than a one go Carnival cruise.

          • Then don’t make absurd claims that are inconsistent with where you live.

            As to where I’ve lived…the Navy showed me plenty of places while I was doing my share in winning the cold war. As a jarhead I am guessing you guarded a gate somewhere or made some similar great contribution. Post navy I have come and gone from the AV a few times, and have to admit it wasn’t my preference most times I came back…but people needed me.

  6. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING !

    SAY THE FIVE SILLY WOMEN RULING OVER US ALL –

    ***

    GUN LOCKS ARE STUPID –

    EXCUSE ME MISTER KILLER WHILE I UNLOCK MY GUN –

    DARN ! WRONG KEY –

    NOW WHERE DID I LOCK UP THOSE BULLETS ?

    ***

    VOTE OUT SUCH SILLINESS FOLKS !

    WHEN YOU NEED A GUN, YOU WANT IT POINTED, LOADED AND IN YOUR HAND –

    MAYBE PROMOTING VOLUNTARY GUN SAFETY CLASSES FOR THOSE THAT CARE ?

    BUT NOT MANDATED BY WANNA BE DICTATORS OUT TO SAVE US ALL –

    WHETHER WE WANT TO BE SAVED OR NOT –

    ***