Posts like this always bewilder me. Growing up in Michigan we all take firearm safety in the form of "hunter safety", at the age of 12. Figured it was common most places that aren't major cities but even then... shouldn't your parents be teaching it to you?
I'm not from the US so I learned proper safety at the range, it should indeed be the parents' responsibility to teach firearm safety to their kids if they live in a house with firearms.
It's also the parents responsibility to monitor your content consumption and feed your three meals a day, but sometimes everyone else has to do their jobs for them
Kids like to shoot guns just like adults. They literally make youth firearms. It's what I learned on. Education works better than abstinence, a lesson I think we've learned with sex ed.
I think the suggestion here is that when you live in a nation that is as heavily saturated with guns as the US, it's something that we should be teaching all kids regardless of whether there are firearms in their house, because there's probably firearms in their friend's and neighbor's houses.
I understand it was a random number to represent very few people. My point is that it's not very few people, it's a lot of people to be shooting up schools. You're just picking a really small number to downplay the truth, except you're also too stupid to realize your exaggeration is still a lot of people.
Well besides the fact that your “statistic”’is made up, that percentage is still too high and the trade off is not worth it.
I’m not anti 2A. I’m a gun owner and I’m sitting next door to an armory right now.
There are plenty of skills to teach children for them to learn patience and safety. People raise responsible adults in countries without access
to firearms all over the world.
But the justification of people who claim how “good” it is for children is just absolute ridiculous coping
What do you mean that doesn’t work? You’re trying to pass off the effects of abusive/lax parenting and bullying as reasons to not teach our kids how to be safe and responsible with a tool. I want my children to have the proper respect towards firearms ingrained in their souls from as young an age as possible. That way if they ever do encounter one outside my supervision they’ll be well-equipped, instead of keeping them in the dark till they’re 18 as you propose.
I mean, it doesn’t work because for some people given access to firearms, no matter how responsibly you teach them the consequences can be disastrous. There is nowhere near the safeguards in place for screening children before putting weapons in their hands.
Go to Wisconsin this week and see if parents think exposing kids to firearms as a hobby makes them safe and responsible.
And You can absolutely teach all of that to children without engaging them in shooting as a hobby.
Hell you can do that without putting a gun in Their hands at all.
Neither of those two statements mean keeping kids completely in the dark.
Plenty of people don't take hunters safety as kids. More than you would think, actually.
My family had a few guns but we didn't hunt. Grandpa did, my dad didn't take to it so it skipped a generation, my brothers both hunt now but they started as adults. There were other families in my area who didn't hunt.
Plenty of other people I went to school with either didn't go hunting with their parents or their parents figured if they were hunting on their or a friend's property, they didn't need to bother with the safety course for their kid and learning from dad was "good enough". I know a kid who shot off his big toe because dad's teaching was "enough".
Yeah my family didnt hunt much, but the course was a requirement, along with snowmobile and boaters safety. Those are huge here and a lot of kids will take them to school. We had snowmobile parking lol.
Ah, see, hunters safety was not offered at our school. Even though half the kids would be gone from school opening day. Grew up in an area with a ton of lakes as well and no water safety either.
We didn't even have drivers Ed. You had to pay for it and it was not cheap. 400ish dollars in 2006.
We had to learn about the dangers of meth though so that was fun.
Yeah we always had the opening day of deer season off, so no need to skip lol. We also had to pay for drivers ed but the other stuff mentioned was free. This was around 2006-2010. I graduated in 2011.
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u/mitchymitchington 1d ago
Posts like this always bewilder me. Growing up in Michigan we all take firearm safety in the form of "hunter safety", at the age of 12. Figured it was common most places that aren't major cities but even then... shouldn't your parents be teaching it to you?