OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Alameda County District Attorney's Office wants parents to ask a somewhat uncomfortable question when kids go on play dates: Is there a gun in the home, and is the gun locked up?
The public awareness campaign aims to stop accidental shootings in homes where guns are not locked up.
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The government estimates that eight children are shot every day in gun accidents.
Joining the Lock It Up campaign is a father whose son was accidentally killed at a friend's home.
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"He took the gun back to the bedroom where my son was, walked in the door and pulled the trigger expecting to hear just a click," said Griffin Dix. "The bullet that was still hidden in the chamber of the gun went through his heart."
A government estimates that one in three homes with children has a gun.