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How to Ask if Guns in Your Community Are Safely Stored

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Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Lauren Gierla
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Xavier chapter.

1. Figure out who to ask

Ask your relatives. Ask your host parents. Ask your roommate. Ask the family you babysit for. Ask your Airbnb host. Ask your friends. Ask the party host. Ask your date.

 

2. Start with other questions

 

3. Then ask the three-part question – Do you have a gun? Is it secured? Is it stored separate from the ammunition?

 

4. Share some stats

Bonus tips:

Acknowledge the awkward

Don’t be confrontational

Try asking through clubs at school

 

For more information go to TeamEnough.org and AskingSavesKids.org.

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Audrey Thorne

Harvard '19

Audrey is a Senior in Pforzheimer house. She likes writing, adventure, Tatte, and doing things ironically it's no longer ironic. She's also Co-Campus Coordinator of the Her Campus Harvard branch.
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Lauren Gierla

Xavier '19

Lauren is a senior Marketing major, with minors in Economics and Gender & Diversity Studies at Xavier University. She calls Nashville, Tennessee home, and is the Campus Correspondent and President of HCXU. When she is not writing, she is planning events on the Student Activities Council, building her resume with her brothers in Delta Sigma Pi, or making random Spotify playlists. She is a Diet Coke enthusiast, and wishes she could spend every day hiking or playing with her dog.