Texas shows how its done........

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://news.yahoo.com/free-gun-initi...173119078.html hotosJust Explain It






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<cite class="byline vcard">By JUAN A. LOZANO | Associated Press – <abbr title="2013-06-08T17:33:12Z" class="updated">21 hrs ago</abbr></cite>

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<!-- google_ad_section_start --> HOUSTON (AP) — Houston resident Cheryl Strain's inexperience with guns was apparent as she struggled to load shells into a 20-gauge shotgun.
Over the piercing blasts of gunfire in the shooting range, Strain's instructor, Dan Blackford, patiently directed her on how to use her thumb to shove a shell all the way inside the barrel and feel it click.
"Now we got a round in the chamber ready to go," Blackford said as he positioned her body on the right way to hold the shotgun. "Look down your sight, put that BB right in the middle of your target and press the trigger."
Strain's northwest Houston community of Oak Forest is the first neighborhood in the country being trained and equipped by the Armed Citizen Project, a Houston nonprofit that is giving away free shotguns to single women and residents of neighborhoods with high crime rates.
While many cities have tried gun buy-backs and other tactics in the ongoing national debate on gun control, the nonprofit and its supporters say gun giveaways to responsible owners are actually a better way to deter crime. The organization, which plans to offer training classes in Dallas, San Antonio, and Tucson, Ariz., in the next few weeks, is working to expand its giveaways to 15 cities by the end of the year, including Chicago and New York.
But others in Houston, while expressing support for Second Amendment rights, question whether more guns will result in more gun-related deaths rather than less crime.
Residents of Oak Forest say their neighborhood, made up of older one-story houses and a growing number of new townhomes, has experienced a recent rash of driveway robberies and home burglaries. On a recent Sunday afternoon, a group of 10 residents, including Strain, went through training at Shiloh Shooting, a northwest Houston gun range.
Kyle Coplen, the project's 29-year-old founder said his group expects to train at least 50 Oak Forest residents and put up signs saying the neighborhood is armed.
"When we have a crime wave, we don't just say let's just increase police and that's all we do. We do multiple things. I see this as one aspect of what we can do," said Coplen, who graduated from the University of Houston with a master's degree in public administration.

[gabosaurus]

I am guessing that most kids in Texas already know how to kill each other.

[jimnyc]

I am guessing that most kids in Texas already know how to kill each other.

And the 2nd post you take it off track already? Please don't start trolling every thread, I'm not in the mood. Just please participate like everyone else.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Another sign that we the people don't trust the government to protect us. Getting pretty damn bad when neighborhoods have to do the job their police are getting paid to do.. but what can we expect now that cops are being trained in sensitivity PC bullcrap and spend so much time "doing paperwork", ... I say start programs training people(civilians) in weapons use to defend the nation would be a better action to take. To me having shot rifles, pistols and shotguns ever since being barely out of diapers it seems kind of strange that so many people go about having not a damn clue about how too properly use and maintain guns. OK, so I only shot shotguns a few years later, a 410 gauge shotgun single shot, I must have been all of 8 years old then.. . -Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I am guessing that most kids in Texas already know how to kill each other.

Safe and proper use is being taught. They are not teaching gangbanging or else you'd likely approve. Right ? Free to post what you think but wouldn't it make sense to not be so damn lame about it? I mean why so much venom against, Texas, kids and guns?