Easy… make a no-live-fire two hour firearms safety lesson mandatory in high schools. Could offer more training as optional lessons. Could even start it in elementary school with the NRA Eddie Eagle class for younger kids, then supplement with the HS class.
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Right. Kiddos used to be exposed to facts on the topic. Now not only are they not exposed, but they’re taught by people who know nothing on the topic and who are in a position of authority/persuasion, that the items and people with them are evil. It isn’t the same premise/foundation.
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You’re not wrong, Will. It is a right, but the world and the people in it have changed. That includes the influx of people who didn’t grow up here back when we did. I see it as our duty to get folks back to that same starting point. The word requirement is tough, and I get why. Still, so many don’t seem to know about the things that they own, they simply own them. And there there are the “accidents.” Seems like school is the place. Maybe teach history and the constitution too. Perhaps critical thinking is most important of all.
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In middle school we had “leisure sports” as a gym curriculum which included archery.
My highschool had a marksmanship team that was live fire .22.
Neither was a REQUIRED course, but they were both there and their simple presence helped educate other students simply by exposure.
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This!!!
I work a simple job of moving semi trailers around an industrial complex.
The people inside work an even simpler job of stacking or unstacking the boxes inside those trailers.
Yet every night I or one of my coworkers will get called to help the inside guys figure out how to close a roll down trailer door!
It’s simply unF’nbelivable how many of today’s kids are outwitted by a door!
Nope….
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