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Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital to give away FREE gun locks for firearm safety

Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital to give away FREE gun locks for firearm safety (Copyright 2023 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.)

HOUSTON – Harris Health is hosting an event on Wednesday morning in an effort to promote firearm safety.

Ben Taub Hospital will be giving away 2,000 gun locks to the public at their campus in the Texas Medical Center from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Ben Taub Hospital (Front entrance circular driveway)
1504 Ben Taub Loop
Houston, Texas 77030

This is also in observance of National Suicide Prevention Month.

According to Washington University in Saint Louis, in the year 2022, more than 20,000 people died from firearms.

Project Child Safe is the organization donating the gun locks to the hospital.

They’re a resource for firearms safety and education.

If you’re interested in learning more about them, you can go to their website at projectchildsafe.org.


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T.J. Parker joined KPRC 2 in June 2023 and is happy to be back in Houston. Before coming back to the Lone Star State, T.J. was a reporter in Miami at WSVN Channel 7. There he covered all things up and down the south Florida coast.

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