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Article: How many kids, how many firearms. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 2, 1994
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Last Saturday his friends and family gathered at Detroit's Wilshire Park to plant a tree in his memory and hear Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano talk about gun safety. ``I would like to prevent the loss of any more of our precious babies,'' his mother wrote in her invitation to the ceremony.
Kenneth's story is all too familiar in a country where half of all households have a gun, and an estimated 1.2 million latchkey kids have access to a firearm.
And yet, officials say, deaths like Kenneth's are preventable.
Gun opponents contend there's no completely safe way to keep a firearm at home. But others, arguing that guns are an inescapable fact of life in part of our ...