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In reply to the discussion: A sincere wish for our DU gun owners: visit Norway! [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I know when it has been proposed before, it has always been Democrat politicians who fought it and gun control advocates or teachers unions who screamed "guns have no place in schools", even for education.
A few examples:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/virginia-school-districts_n_976126.html
From above link:
But critics called for more inclusive standards and guidelines if districts choose to include gun safety in its curriculum. Lori Haas, spokesperson for the Virginia Center for Public Safety and mother to a survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, told FoxNews.com last April that the legislation is an unnecessary burden on the school board, as well as a "freebie to a special interest group."
"I personally don't think firearm safety has a place in the schools. That's up to the parents to teach that at home," Haas told FoxNews.com. "For the General Assembly and governor to dictate to the Board of Education in writing curriculum is not their area."
http://www.pressherald.com/politics/Gun-safety-bill-shot-down-by-committee.html
From above:
"It's just one more thing on top of schools that they don't need, and this is not really under their bailiwick, as far as I'm concerned," said Rep. Victoria Kornfield, D-Bangor.
More opposition to gun safety training, this time on a college campus. http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20130510/woodland-hills-warner-center-neighborhood-council-wants-to-stop-nra-gun-classes-at-pierce-college
There are plenty more examples- if it is brought up and defeated it is almost always someone from our side, to say the left, doing so. Part of that is a knee-jerk response because the NRA provides most gun safety materials, even though they are non-political. We should be applauding the NRA for doing gun safety work and training, but way too many just reject it out of hand, which is foolish. I have actually seen the NRA's programs at work, there is nothing political and nothing glamorizes guns in them. But gun control groups, in their zeal to bash anything the NRA does, claim it somehow is the equivalent of "Joe Camel", a ludicrous statement but keeping with the level of intellectual dishonesty I expect from them.
We had a thread on here not long ago lamenting the fact that a new school in GA had a rifle range in in, for just this kind of education among other things.
But lets still be honest about your intention here- first you say you want Norwegian style laws- now you only want selective parts of them, and want to keep some laws more restrictive. You have changed your stance form "I want Norways Laws" to "I want some of Norways Laws" once it was pointed out that many of their laws are less restrictive.