Proper gun safety training and handling for kids begins at home.

A hat tip to RockyMountainMike!

27 if you want to count his mother who trained him.

She will need them when the Gangstas and or Red Coats come after her and her family.

This guy is the only one in the classroom who is professional enough to handle his Glock .40

maybe he should have sued Glock instead?

"A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the DEA agent who shot himself in the leg during a gun safety demonstration and later became a punch line when video of the incident surfaced online and was widely broadcast on TV.

Agent Lee Paige, 50, contended that the leak of the video--for which he blamed DEA officials--amounted to a violation of his privacy rights. However, in a December 29 order, Judge Jack Shanstrom rejected that claim and dismissed Paige’s U.S. District Court complaint in its entirety. Paige, who worked undercover, claimed that the video’s distribution resulted in him becoming the “target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments” everywhere he went."

Paige, who sued the DEA nearly five years ago, shot himself during an April 2004 presentation to parents and their children at the Orlando Youth Minority Golf Association in Orlando, Florida. As seen in the above video, which was shot by an audience member who later turned his Mini-DV tape over to DEA agents, Paige displayed a handgun to the crowd and remarked, “I am the only one in the room professional enough, that I know of, to carry this Glock 40.”

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/dea/judge-bounces-lawsuit-filed-dea-agent-who-shot-self-leg-during-gun-demo

Ever consider consider parents themselves don't have, or want, guns? Or that not every ADULT knows, or wants to know, how to handle a gun?

Of course I now have to find a nice fullsized handgun to take it's place.

Right now I'm down a 9mm so I'm gonna have to pick up another.

I realize and can understand not every household, or parent, wants or has a firearm in the home.
That's well within your rights, and I respect that.
However, I do think that if there is a firearm in the home, or if their child should ever find themselves in a situation where a gun might be in reach, that child should be taught and made aware of potential dangers and instructed on what and what not to do.

I also believe that children should be taught to treat firearms as an object to be respected, and not reviled.
Given the right attitude, coaching and encouragement, it's perfectly normal, and acceptable for the nations youth to not only be made aware of the dangers of irresponsible firearms handling and lax safety measures, but also that if placed in the proper environment, kids and firearms
is no more harmful or evil than their participating in any other recreational pastime or sport.

That's why I believe it should be taught in public schools. Every student should be given an opportunity to learn the basic rules of what NOT to do with a firearm that they encounter, and how to safely unload the most common types.

I don't want to know how to "handle a gun". As a parent, why would I want my child to? So many guns all over in society, that ever human being needs to KNOW this? That the rationale?

I didn't post anything about teaching them to "handle a gun."

So many guns all over in society, that ever human being needs to KNOW this? That the rationale?

My rationale is that in the lifetime of a person in this country, the probability of encountering a firearm that has been carelessly left lying around or discarded in haste by a criminal is not zero. Therefore it's best if people know what to do (and not do) if they encounter one.

Even if you have a policy of never walking out in the brush here in Southern California, your chance of coming upon a rattlesnake at some point is significant. Everyone should know how to behave in the presence of a rattlesnake, or a firearm.

Rocket science? Child do the same except tell an adult. Then the adult doesn't touch it either, and in addition, calls the police.

... wouldn't you want to know how to disable it?

Put down on the table and call the cops. Tell kids to stay away from it until they come. If this gun was used in a crime, you are tampering with evidence if you handle it.

If I have a gun in my house that I'm not sure about it's condition... I'm unloading it. I'll use gloves whatever.

If you want a loaded gun on your table... I suppose that's your business.


But then again... if we had a gun safety class... perhaps the police could offer input and indicate what they'd want done. Hmm.

My husband's. I don't touch them. They stayed where they were until he came home. Big reason why I wanted the combination safe. No more guns around the guns. They are all now locked up and away.

Sometimes it's appropriate for an adult, or even a properly trained teenager, to take action.

We can't count on government to take care of every problem every time.

... in its "Eddie the Eagle" program.

It's different for an adult. An adult finding a gun should of course call the police, but unless said adult has a cellphone handy and intends to wait and watch over this gun until police arrive, it would be advantageous to know how to render it safe. I would certainly do so in those circumstances.

If someone brings out a gun in the presence of your child and if your child knows something about guns then your child would be in a position to inform the person handling the gun in an unsafe manner what they should do. That is a convoluted way of saying if all childrn know something about guns, accidental firings could be lessened. It's amazing to me how many people, childrn and adults, think that if the magazine of a semi-auto handgun is removed from a gun then the gun is unloaded. That is not always the case. There could be a round in the chamber and if the trigger is pulled, the 'unloaded' gun will fire and could possible hurt of injure someone.

and they grew up in NYC and LI. The situation never came up there.

applies to all people, including those who don't like guns.

any more than you can force somebody to know how to drive. It won't happen. And you see this attitude will only make people very mad, and call you a GUN NUT.

By the way, a working knowledge of how to drive an automobile is something every adult should know as well.

... would you not want to at least know how to disable it?

leaving the gun alone. I cannot understand the wish to deliberately avoid knowledge about guns.

Growing up (in a single parent household), me mum was very anti-gun; still is to this day.
Had I somehow been able to find myself with a gun in hand back then, odds are that I would have done something foolish, reckless or irresponsible.

What firearms education and experience I do have (35+ years worth), I learned on my own (much to the chagrin of me mum).
But, that's my story. For other kids, things can take a more unfortunate turn with devastating and sometimes fatal results. With that in mind, I can't understand why any reasonable parent, or school official, would object to the "basic rules" of firearms safety and awareness to be taught in the classroom.

Red State days...when people had hunting guns...have had a gun of any kind. Why on earth would I want to pay someone to teach gun safety to kids at public school...some of whom have psychological problems maybe not yet identified...just for starters.

Not to mention all the other things schools can't fund like special ed, liberal arts classes, field trips, books, etc.

especially with little girls. Will she grow up to buy a pink Hello Kitty too?

http://www.4-hshootingsports.org/Kids'N'Guns.php

this is sad

They didn't have time to do that. Plus I didn't have that junk food in my house. Nobody, even them, ate it.

and my younger daughter got a college scholarship from it. Better than shooting guns, or sitting and eating in front of a TV.

If my kid is interested and aptitude, I'll probably support it.

My daughters weren't interested, and neither am I. However, far too many gun owners cannot understand this.

But I still think people should know some basic safety information/rules regardless. Doesn't even have to be called gun safety education in schools. You could roll it into a class about human relations for all I care and how guns aren't the answer and the damage they can cause. Pack it up however you want.

Cannot be required and would need parental consent. I had to sign a consent form for my kids to be on school sports teams. Way back when, my husband was on the school's Rifle Team and his parents even back then had to consent to it.

and a lot more exercise.

They're both olympic sports. No need to be snobby. Shooting is a remarkably difficult skill at that level. Saying shooting is a lesser sport is like saying the Tour de France is "just riding a bike", or auto racing is "just driving a car".

I do draw the line at chess and poker... honest to go I even saw Scrabble on ESPN once

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/philadelphia-boy-loaded-gun-backpack-school_n_2644801.html

The teachers did the RIGHT thing. Left the gun in the backpack. Did NOT take it out, unload it, etc. The call the police and gave them the backpack with the gun inside.

I suppose those teachers, if had they had a gun safety course, could have taken it out, checked to see if it was loaded, and unloaded it THEMSELVES. If they were allowed to carry guns to school themselves, they would KNOW what to do already, and not have to depend on the POLICE!!!!!

That would be INSANE.

deliberately obtuse on this topic just because you can. Of course the teacher should leave the gun alone. However, knowledge of guns is never a dangerous thing. What is done with that knowledge could get someone into trouble. You seem to know at least one thing that is always the first thing taught in gun safety (you probably learned it from your husband) and that is to treat every gun as if it were loaded.

but more my own desire to not touch them. Guns gross me out. Period.