FOXNews.com - Virginia to Teach Gun Safety in Elementary Schools

FOXNews.com - Virginia to Teach Gun Safety in Elementary Schools

It's good to see that some common sense is prevailing in the area of firearms. This is an excellent law and one that, if your state doesn't already have it, you should forward to your legislator asking that he introduce a similar bill.

As it stands now, children are killed in greater numbers by far on our nation's highways, many times in a vehicle driven by a "responsible adult", than by firearms that are left unattended by irresponsible adults. Still, the loss of one innocent life is tragic when it can be avoided by having children trained in gun safety.

Now the lady quoted in the linked article, one Lori Haas who is identified as the spokeswoman for the Virginia Center for Public Safety (unfortunately, I'm a Virginian who never heard of that group) seems to feel that teaching gun safety is the same as teaching children how to shoot when clearly that's comparing apples to oranges.  She states, and I quote her from the article, "I personally don't think firearm safety has a place in the schools. That's up to the parents to teach that at home." I don't know Ms. Haas either but I'd expect that kind of statement from a liberal-progressive who doesn't know the first thing about firearms. In other words, it's not logical and just doesn't make sense. It's exactly the same as saying, "I personally don't think driver's safety has a place in the schools. That's up to the parents to teach that at home." School's have had driver's education courses throughout the United States for many years and no one can doubt the positive effect they've had on teenage driving. Isn't it about time that they did the same with firearms?

The problem with the entire argument put forward by Ms. Haas and others like her is that they are the parents who have no firearms at home and the thought of having one is distasteful. They aren't capable, therefore, of teaching firearms safety to their own children because their view of firearms safety is to completely avoid the issue.

Unfortunately the real world is not like that and while you may, as is your right, choose to have no firearms in your house, more than half of America has a different view. That means that when your child goes to a friend's home to play there's a 50-50 chance that there is a firearm in that home. Isn't it better to ensure that all children know what to do, and more importantly what not to do, when they see a firearm?

It appears to me that Ms. Haas is speaking for a group that purposely took a high-minded title that provides cover for their actual goals. If what she said is the position of that group then I can only assume that it is made up of liberal-progressive-socialist Democrats and their only real purpose is to abrogate the 2nd Amendment. We all know that to do that would only make it safer for criminals to follow their trade as well as for dictators to follow theirs.

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