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In reply to the discussion: Missouri bill would require gun safety course in first grade [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)76. "Tell an adult"
Assuming that teachers will be required to take a course in HANLDING guns as part of this program. No right to say NO to that????? Time to find another occupation, and state.
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Missouri bill would require gun safety course in first grade [View all]
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2013
OP
This, is a sick country. It's just absolutely a seriously disturbed country. n/t
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#1
I taught a class of fellow jr hi students on the safe use of a pump shotgun...
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#12
I don't know. Every kid should probably hear "If you see a gun, don't touch it", very early
Recursion
Jan 2013
#14
They aren't being taught to use guns. The GunSafe program is the "Don't touch Do tell" thing
Recursion
Jan 2013
#13
Sex ed and gun ed, it's all about safety and 'kids will do it anyway'
The Straight Story
Jan 2013
#9
Home safety courses are a lot different from mandating it for 1st graders at school.
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2013
#10
What's wrong with kids having a class that says "don't touch a gun if you see one"?
Recursion
Jan 2013
#16
While we all hate the NRA, the Eddie Eagle Gun Safe program is actually really good
Recursion
Jan 2013
#17
Totally phucked up...gun safety is one thing, forcing NRA sponsored propganda
joeybee12
Jan 2013
#19
Point us to gun safety information from the Brady Campaign or VPC, will you?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#22
I hate the NRA, but the Eddie Eagle program *is* better than nothing.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#25
So what? Ignorance is *not* strength, especially in re kids and guns.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#31
If you seek empathy for the NRA from me, you're looking at the wrong person...
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#53
Those kids are with us, like it or not, so *somebody* needs to give them safety education.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#61
Exactly, keep Wayne LaPierre, Teddy Nugent and the right wing NRA away from children.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#34
So the solution to a mass shooting of kindergartners is to teach them how to shoot.
Initech
Jan 2013
#24
They'll be teaching them to not touch guns and tell an adult if they see one.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#27
I can certainly understand your reticence to teach a wholly natural aspect of biological sciences
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#41
Because we don't currently spend 8 hours on the art of Reading instruction
proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2013
#37
Should they then teach safety for any and all consumer products which are not toys
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#42
What 'paradigm' is that, and do you have any evidence that said paradigm actually exists?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#55
Of course you're not- you can't handle anything but unquestioning acceptance.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#62
Thank God my Missouri Legislature is working HARD to make Missouri a better place in which to live!
benld74
Jan 2013
#64
Like them or not (and I certainly don't), they're the ONLY people teaching gun safety.
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#69