From Cayman Naib's Father, A Plea On Guns

The father of Cayman Naib, the Delaware County 13-year-old who was found dead of suicide last spring, is speaking out about the dangers of keeping guns in the home.

Farid Naib is appearing in a campaign by the gun control group Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. In a video called “The Truth About Suicide and Guns: Cayman’s Story,” Farid says that he’s seeking to do “14 good things”- one for each year his son was alive- and one of those is educating others about the risks of having a gun around with children in the house.

Naib, a prominent technology executive, tells the story about how he bought a gun many years ago, and later purchased a trigger lock and then forgot about it. His son got a hold of the gun and used it to commit suicide. He was inspired to come forward with the campaign when he heard from another parent who had been through the same thing.

The Naib family’s ordeal was the subject of considerable local interest and media attention when he disappeared, and was later found dead, in early March.

The Brady Campaign is named for James Brady, the press secretary who was wounded during the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981; Brady and his wife Sarah, both of whom have passed away in the last two years, became gun control advocates.

See the video here: