Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumGun Safety: Family Gun Safety Information and Advice (from BabyZone, a Disney deal)
Oddly, this was linked at the Facebook page that took the name, "Every Town For Gun Safety" before Bloomberg had a chance to claim it.
Now it's a big deal, I guess, but I thought the site offered some smart resources and not a lot of propaganda.
Link to that FB page: http://www.facebook.com/Everytownforgunsafety
And now for the Disney sponsored page:
Teaching Gun Saftey
Guns and children can be a harmful if not fatal combination. Regardless of our views on gun control, we need to face the fact that guns are a part of American society. Whether parents own guns or not, they must proactively address issues of gun safety with their children to help them protect themselves from injury, death, or even having to live with accidentally shooting another person.
When should parents address the issue of guns with their kids? The National Rifle Association (NRA) recommends that parents begin teaching gun safety to a child the first time he or she shows an interest in firearms, even toy pistols or rifles.
Nancy Brown, an education specialist with the Knox County Sheriffs Office in Knoxville, Tennessee, teaches gun safety to children and parents through the schools. If you own guns in your home, you should start when children can understand enough to know that they cannot touch that gun, she says. There have been gun accidents when a child at a very young age has got hold of a gun.
When teaching about gun safety, parents may wish to use information from NRAs widely popular Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program. The program, begun in 1998, was developed with input from clinical psychologists, reading specialists, teachers, curriculum specialists, urban housing safety officials, and law enforcement personnel and is taught to preschoolers through third graders across the country. Eddie Eagle does not use firearms in its program, make value judgments about guns, or mention the NRA, and it has no political agendait exists solely to promote the safety of children.
The program teaches four important steps children should follow if they find or are shown a gun:
STOP!
Dont Touch the Gun
Leave the Area
Tell an Adult
More at the link:
http://www.babyzone.com/kids/kids-health-and-safety/gun-safety_68484
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)Make them scarce in addition to preaching these wonderful platitudes.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)SQUEE
(1,315 posts)Children properly introduced to firearms are far less likely to win Darwin awards, my father and uncles demonstration of a 1911 vs a watermelon left a vivid and indelible mark on me on why guns were not toys, and they needed to be treated with neither fear nor apathy, but respect.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)M I C See my beautiful gun, K E Y Why because we NEED it, M A U S E R. What a fucking sad world we live in. Children need to be told about gun safety. So glad I don't have any kids having to waste their time over this shit instead of just being kids. But men need their guns. Pathetic. IMO the gun people are just like the 1%. They don't care about anyone except themselves and their guns.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...and... ...swimming pools!
It's true!
DonP
(6,185 posts)But I'm sure you don't include Bloomberg and his anti NRA $50 million budget for the 2014 mid terms in that "selfish 1%"?
He's a "good" 1%er, even if he stops dark skinned people on the street and has them frisked, it's for their own good.
After all, he's spent a lot of money on elections. Look at the great job he did in Colorado. Of course much of it wound up with Dems losing seats. But he meant well.
TupperHappy
(166 posts)...because, according to the banners, its for the right cause. So long as you are advocating the approved ideology on guns, Billionaire Bloomberg can pull however many millions he wants out of his couch cushions and its all good. Astroturf is just fine if its sufficiently anti-gun, you know.
Jgarrick
(521 posts)From the rather obscure 1970's comic book, "E-Man".
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)To repeat a question: Why not have T.V. ads, PSAs, newspaper displays, etc. advocating proper gun storage; safes, lock boxes, and the like? There are already ads for this in major hunting mags, why not elsewhere?
Maybe here in DU as well?