Colorado Public School Teaches Real Gun Safety - Gun Grabbers Get Angry

[Jeff]

If The Government is truly worried about the dangers of guns then this is the best way to go, forget about punishing law abiding citizens educate those that need it, hell in fact make it a mandatory class that everyone has to pass in order to continue on, Education is always the best answer and in this case it stand true again. No way can they ever get all guns off the streets so educate people about them, start enforcing the laws already in effect and then sit back and watch the results. Sounds pretty simple but not for the left, some want to make us defenseless and then others on that left just go for the ride a ride that if those that they worship took the exact opposite side of the debate they would be going for that ride.



One Colorado Public Middle School is causing quite a stir (http://www.krdo.com/news/students-at-the-shooting-range-for-gun-safety/25055098) with the anti-gun rights left. The Middle School decided to take a logical and proactive approach to actually teaching their students about guns and gun safety by taking them to a local shooting range. Using their brains and actually teaching their students is causing the anti-gun left to go a little crazy, as you can imagine. The anti-gunners would much rather the public school demagogue guns and tell their kids that guns are dangerous and deadly – instead of actually teaching them



http://eaglerising.com/5315/colorado-public-school-teaches-real-gun-safety-gun-grabbers-get-angry/

[CSM]

If The Government is truly worried about the dangers of guns then this is the best way to go, forget about punishing law abiding citizens educate those that need it, hell in fact make it a mandatory class that everyone has to pass in order to continue on, Education is always the best answer and in this case it stand true again. No way can they ever get all guns off the streets so educate people about them, start enforcing the laws already in effect and then sit back and watch the results. Sounds pretty simple but not for the left, some want to make us defenseless and then others on that left just go for the ride a ride that if those that they worship took the exact opposite side of the debate they would be going for that ride.





http://eaglerising.com/5315/colorado-public-school-teaches-real-gun-safety-gun-grabbers-get-angry/

It is rather ironic that because driving a vehicle is such an integral part of US daily activity and poses so many safety concerns nearly every high school kid is taught to drive yet gun safety (such a threat to public safety that some want firearms banned altogether) is not only ignored but frowned upon. Granted that firearm use is not anywhere near the level of activity that driving is, driving (we are so often told) is a privilege yet gun ownership is a RIGHT. Wierd, ain't it?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://life.time.com/history/gun-control-teaching-firearm-safety-to-indiana-schoolchildren/#1

Old-School Gun Control: Portrait of Firearm Safety in Rural Indiana, 1956

Read more: Gun Control, Old-School Edition: Firearm Safety in Rural Indiana | LIFE.com http://life.time.com/history/gun-control-teaching-firearm-safety-to-indiana-schoolchildren/#ixzz2x4un3DKZ


NOTE: LIFE.com is aware that encountering images of guns and children in a classroom might be distressing to some readers — even if those images were made decades ago and depict an adult instructing schoolkids in a rural community in the proper and safe use of firearms. Our intention is not to incite, but to add context and nuance to the national dialog around guns, gun violence and gun safety in the United States.]

Guns. It sometimes seems, especially now, that we can’t talk about anything in American life without somehow, at some point, referencing the nation’s enduring obsession with guns. After the unspeakable horror of Sandy Hook (and the Wisconsin Sikh temple massacre, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Jared Lee Loughner’s 2011 slaughter in Tuscon, Chicago’s terrifying spike in gun-related violence in 2012 and on and on), the national conversation around gun rights and gun control has assumed an urgency that at times verges on desperation.

What the hell, everyone seems to be asking, can we do about the endless killing?

The numbers related to gun violence in the land of the free are, of course, deeply chilling. More than 8,500 Americans were murdered by guns (or rather, by killers wielding guns) in 2011, according to the most recent FBI data. Of those, 565 were under the age of 18; 119 were kids 12 or younger. Wherever one comes down on the gun debate, most sane people can agree that those statistics are a national disgrace and . . . well, insane.

But there are literally tens of millions of Americans who own and shoot guns entirely within the letter and spirit of the law. Hunting, for example, is a pastime and a rite of passage in countless communities around the U.S., and the vast majority of hunters — men and women, boys and girls — are not taking down deer and ducks and bears and doves with slingshots, or with bows and arrows. They’re using rifles and shotguns — as they have for generations.

Six decades ago, in its March 26, 1956, issue, LIFE magazine published a remarkable series of photos that accompanied an article titled, “Drawing a Bead on Safety.” Here, in hopes of providing at least a bit more context and a small measure of perspective on the nation’s gun debate, LIFE revisits those images and that article. After all, the central point of the current discussion around guns is how to make communities safer. Assuming that shotguns, at the very least, will likely be with us for a while, and that families and friends will continue to hunt together for the foreseeable future, lessons in how to shoot what one is hunting, rather than blasting oneself or one’s companions, will always have a necessary place in our gun-happy culture.

As LIFE put it in “Drawing a Bead on Safety,” all those years ago (citing a statistic that is still appalling today):


In 1954 more than 550 U.S. children under 15 were killed in accidents involving the careless handling of firearms, five of them in lake County, Indiana. [In 2010, 606 people were killed by "accidental discharge of firearms," according to the CDC. — Ed.] This situation shocked Indiana Conservation Officer Rod Rankin, who decided to offer a course in gun safety to any interested child in the county. In the past year 2,500 children from 6 years on, with the approval of their parents, have taken him up on it.


Rankin stresses two things: never point as gun at anybody, even in play, and always check immediately to see if the gun is loaded … Rankin is glad to answer routine questions such as “How fast and far does a bullet go?” but tries to discourage ones like “Have you ever shot anyone?” and “If you shoot a man in the head how long does it take him to die?”


Some people think Rankin is starting the kids on firearms too young. But the National Rifle Association points out that four states now permit gun safety courses in grade school and says, “The earlier a kid learns to respect a gun and what not to do with it the better chance natural curiosity won’t get him in trouble.”

Love or hate the NRA, it’s hard to argue with a logic that stresses education and safety around firearms


Read more: Gun Control, Old-School Edition: Firearm Safety in Rural Indiana | LIFE.com http://life.time.com/history/gun-control-teaching-firearm-safety-to-indiana-schoolchildren/#ixzz2x4v4vXRD


We were forced away from such teaching. I am sure you need no guesses to know by whom! This fact is why I say the libs operate on the "death by a thousand cuts " principle , the same one the Muslims do. And a big reason they founded their alliance. Both want us destroyed, both believe any method used is good and winning by SLOW cooking the unsuspecting frog is ok too.
People screaming about banning guns now would have been locked up in mental facilities back then. With that in mind, it must be either people back then were crazy or else anti-gun people now are crazy! I know which one Id stake my life on.. --Tyr