A health place like no place in Maine. Maine Medical Center today presented 1,000 trigger locks to Portland Police Chief Michael Chitwood for distribution to Portland residents. The donation is an attempt to re-energize the trigger lock initiative begun by the Citizens Against Handgun Violence Foundation. We think these locks, are a significant investment in public safety well beyond their actual value.
Trigger locks are a way to find common ground.
We can all agree that it s a good thing to prevent children from accidental shooting, to prevent a depressed teenager from taking a usable gun to school, to prevent a domestic dispute from escalating to a tragedy. The Harvard project hopes to assist the Centers for Disease Control in its planned development of a National Violent Death Reporting System that would include all deaths resulting from violence. It is unclear how many unlocked firearms are stored in homes in Maine and across the country. The Citizens Against Handgun Violence Foundation began an initiative to distribute trigger locks through municipal police departments last year. The program was so successful that the organization ran out of funds to purchase the locks.