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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 06:38 PM Apr 2014

Gun 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:

Gun Safety: Family Gun Safety Information and Advice ~BabyZone~



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 Sheriff’s 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 NRA’s 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 agenda—it 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!
Don’t 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
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Loudly

(2,436 posts)
2. Who are we kidding? Guns are an attractive nuisance. Kid magnets!
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 07:41 PM
Apr 2014

Make them scarce in addition to preaching these wonderful platitudes.

SQUEE

(1,315 posts)
11. So are multicolored bongs
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 08:46 AM
Apr 2014

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)
4. Isn't this the video with Mickey Mauser
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 08:06 PM
Apr 2014

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.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
6. Kids also need training about drugs, household chemicals, traffic, hot stoves....
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 08:50 PM
Apr 2014

...and... ...swimming pools!

It's true!

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
7. "So glad I don't have any kids" - finally, something we can all agree on
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 10:42 PM
Apr 2014

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)
9. But you see its OK for Billionaire Bloomberg to spend HIS millions influencing elections
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 11:11 PM
Apr 2014

...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)
8. Michael (Don't call me Mickey) Mauser, private eye!
Thu Apr 17, 2014, 10:57 PM
Apr 2014


From the rather obscure 1970's comic book, "E-Man".
 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
10. 2A advocates in DU have advocated for child-oriented gun safety...
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 07:46 AM
Apr 2014

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?

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