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When I turned 12, my dad took me to a hunter safety course. I didn't really think I was all that interested in hunting but he was, so we went.
We went hunting a few times. I usually ended up falling asleep on a log or something, so he just went without me.
I've never owned a gun while living in my own, but I know how to safely use one if I have to.
I really don't know why it isn't mandatory.
In the United States firearms education should be mandatory. It's not because the anti-gun crowd loses their fucking minds whenever it comes up.
The NRA has funded and run a program called "Eddie Eagle" for decades that teaches basic firearms safety and accident reduction to kids and it's been slowly driven out of schools.
You can find a plethora of articles online but here's an example: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/02/15/bill-require-gun-safety-nra-eddie-eagle-program-schools/6800808001/
Here's another example from Kansas: https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-bill-would-require-school-gun-safety-program/39432200
The legislature passed it, the Dem Governor VETOED it!
Wrap your head around this for a minute. Here's Republicans and the NRA (fuck those guys) trying to do a "common sense" thing and getting lambasted for it. I can understand having an issue with the NRA (fuck those guys) but there's been absolutely no counter proposals or attempts at creating something similar without NRA involvement.
We NEED firearms education in this country but we're losing what little we did have and attempts at adding more are continually thwarted by the very people screaming from the rooftops about "Common Sense Reform".
It the same stupidity that Republicans have with Sex Ad. It's education vs ignorance. We need education.
Firearms education is only necessary when there are guns all over the place. The people you're complaining about don't want guns around to begin with. Not to mention the inherent propaganda that is 100% built into any children's content produced by Republicans and the NRA. If the goal of Democrats is to increase gun control and reduce the amount of guns among the general populace, it doesn't really make sense for them to want NRA propaganda in schools. That said, I do agree that while there are all these guns around, parents should generally do a better job to make sure their children get this information, whether their family owns a gun or not.
True but that condition is absolutely positively 100% not going away at any time in the next 50 years. The 2A could be repleaded and private firearm ownership made federally illegal tomorrow and there would still be firearms in closets, dresser drawers, and attics in 2074.
That's completely fair but nothing is being created to replace it. If they don't want the NRA involved that's cool and I completely get it...but that doesn't clear them to do nothing while blocking what already exists.
It's frustrating as all get out.