Fox News had an interesting video piece on their website this morning, about Arizona schools having a voluntary program to teach gun safety and marksmanship as a creditable part of the school curriculum.
I think this is a wonderful idea. This goes beyond the Eddie Eagle program that is taught by the NRA, this teaches how to shoot and how to do it safely.
Shooting is one of the few sports where boys and girls are in the same league, instead of having a boys team and a girls team.
Shooting instills a certain level of responsibility in the students, simply by the fact that if you aren't safe in shooting, you don't get to shoot. And shooting is fun. It gives you discipline by the fact that you have to be able to control yourself to hit the target consistently.
It is the myths perpetuated by TV and movies that contribute to the gun violence we see today. Too many people try to solve their problems with guns and teach that brutal force is okay. This must stop.
Teaching our children the joys and responsibility of gun ownership is a wonderful thing. I wish the schools taught it here.
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