Another Poll - Teach Children Gun Safety?

[45Doll 5,891]

From the usual suspects, if you care to vote.

 

http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2015/02/poll_is_educating_children_about_gun_safety_a_good.html#incart_related_stories

 

[Pizza Bob 1,488]

Leave it up to NJ.Com (Star Ledger) to put a subtle negative spin on the poll. The article which generated the poll was about the NRA's Eddie Eagle Program. The first choice in the poll is: Teaching children to respect, properly handle firearms is a good thing.

 

The Eddie Eagle program is about keeping our children safe and is specifically about NOT handling firearms. The three main points of the program - what the children are taught - are, if you find a gun: 1) Do not touch it. 2) Run away. 3) Tell an adult.

 

It seems to me that the folks at the Star Ledger would benefit from some NRA classes - like that could happen.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

[45Doll 5,891]

Good catch and point Bob. Subtlety is the crowbar of conversion.

[diamondd817 828]

I voted for all guns she be outlawed and confiscated.

[jm1827 284]

I voted for all guns she be outlawed and confiscated.

You were the one vote eh?

[Burns 16]

I voted for all guns she be outlawed and confiscated.

 

I agree think of the children!

[Krdshrk 3,878]

You were the one vote eh?

 

It's up to 3 now.

[jm1827 284]

Just my humble opinion.  I learned gun safety at an early age, and the way I learned it was that there were a few hard fast rules such as never point a gun at anyone, know what you are shooting at and beyond and treat every dun as if it were loaded.  No obviously there is more to it than that but that was about it for a while.

 

I started handling guns when I was around 5, of course under close adult supervision, and got my first pellet gun when I turned 10.  I was allowed to shoot that gun unsupervised and for years I put thousands of rounds through it.  Around the age of 12 or 13 I was allowed to shoot a 22, again at times unsupervised.  At that time I started shooting clays and by the time I was 15 or 16,  again, allowed to shoot with friends.  I was reloading my own ammo and did do, you guessed it unsupervised.

 

Now, before you start thinking my parents were negligent let me tell you they weren't, they made sure I know what I was doing then they trusted me and most importantly held me accountable.  

 

Flash ahead to now I am in my very early 50s and have been shooting for 45+ years and I can honestly say we (me and my shooting partners, friends etc) never ever had an unsafe incident and the reason I attribute it to was the fact that I learned a few hard, fast and inflexible rules that I followed throughout my life.  

[PD2K 115]

I agree think of the children!

 

LOL

[melrose 0]

All of the NJ.com gun related polls seem to end up overwhelmingly pro gun. Surprised they still put them out there.

[Mr.Stu 1,930]

I'm not. They generate clicks which let's them raise more advertising revenue.