McThag made a great comment here.
Go click over and read it, then come back.
He calls it “Extreme” but it really isn’t. Guns are a reality in America…really a reality EVERYWHERE, but since they are not contraband here its a reality with less taboo. Well except in the public school system where they are insane.
Still I don’t think I could list all the basic safety stuff taught to me in elementary school. Stranger danger, don’t let anybody but your doctor or your parents touch your bathing suit area, looking both ways before crossing the street, holding the hand rail when on the stairs, hand washing, sneezing and coughing into your hand (not into the elbow, which has been a VERY effective campaign), safety with scissors.
I mean the list is HUGE!
I don’t see why Eddie Eagle couldn’t be tossed in. Its really not controversial, or extreme at all. In America we have guns, it is a liability not to teach children to respect them.
Further McThag’s mandatory muster idea isn’t too far off. If you’re able bodied, you’re in the Militia and in old times were EXPECTED to demonstrate competency on a regular basis.
My idea is that rather than having musters we simply extend it as the public students age. Basic understanding of firearms should be taught in middle school, such as the four rules, and the various types of firearms and how they work. Nothing to gun blog standards, just enough that students wouldn’t be fooled by the bullshit propaganda spread by the anti-freedom goons. Simple stuff like knowing the difference between semi-auto and full auto, ect.
In High School, all students should be required basic marksmanship and all the safe gun handling required for that. Also schools should all have rifle and pistol teams for all interested in competition.
These simple changes would not only greatly improve safety and knowledge of what is a common item in America, but foster solid marksmanship.
I mean I won’t be watching the Super Bowl tomorrow, but I know how to throw a football because of PE. Why can’t the other people know how to keep their rounds in the black at 100 yards?
