902 - Gun Violence Awareness Month: Safe Storage Saves Lives

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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About this episode:

June is Gun Violence Awareness Month with a focus on safe storage, a key factor in preventing gun-related injuries and deaths. In this episode: a look at how safe storage saves lives, evidence-based tools and tips for lawmakers, gun owners, parents, pediatricians, and more; and how to normalize conversations about safe storage in everyday life.

Guests:

Dr. Katherine Hoops, is a pediatrician and the director of Clinical Practice at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

Cass Crifasi is the co-executive director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

Host:

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Show links and related content:

Gun Violence Awareness Month Campaign—The Center For Gun Violence Solutions
Safe & Secure Gun Storage Prevents Injuries (PDF)
How To Talk To Other Parents About Guns In The Home (PDF)
Safe and Secure Gun Storage Solutions—The Center For Gun Violence Solutions
What The Conviction of a Parent of a High School Shooter Could Mean—Public Health On Call (March 2024)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
0:05.9	where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.
0:16.3	If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.u.
0:22.7	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:30.5	Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers.
0:33.4	June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, and today is all about safe storage of firearms.
0:39.8	Dr. Catherine Hoops and Cass Crawfosse, both researchers at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions,
0:45.4	join me to talk about why safe gun storage is such an important part of violence prevention.
0:51.1	We also talk about some tools for various stakeholders, including policymakers,
0:55.8	parents, and pediatricians, and how we know that safe storage practices really work to prevent
1:01.7	tragedies. Let's listen. Dr. Catherine Hoops and Cascrafasi, thank you so much for joining us on
1:08.0	Public Health on Call. Today we are talking about safe firearm
1:12.1	storage. And when we think of gun violence prevention, people may not think about storage as
1:17.5	being part of the problem. So Cass, can you tell us a little bit about this? Yeah, so what we know
1:22.4	about firearm ownership in the U.S. is among people who own guns, less than half of them store all of their
1:30.7	guns safely. And what this translates to is lots of people who can't legally buy guns or own them
1:37.7	potentially having access to them, including an estimated 4.6 million kids who may use them to unintentionally harm themselves or take them to school.
1:48.0	And so when we're thinking about firearm injury prevention, we're really thinking about the suite of activities that we can engage in.
1:55.0	Sometimes that's laws and policies, sometimes it's the individual behaviors that we expect people to engage in.
2:02.5	Yeah, and you have a lot of safe storage tools, and they are geared towards these different
2:07.0	audiences. So that may be a good way to approach this. What are some of these different audiences
2:10.9	and maybe you can give a couple of examples? Let's start with one, Cass.
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