GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[F.U.]

I agree Duch! Piss poor parents raise piss poor children.


On the education side of this. While schools dont educate children about firearms anymore you as a parrent can. The NRA has had a program out called Eddie Eagle. It is a information packet that helps you talk with children and educate them about firearms. Here is a link if anyone is interested in this.

http://eddieeagle.nra.org/information-for-parents.aspx

Help me out, F.U. I read all of your posts and typically have no problem seeing where you're going. But, I keep missing your point in beating the "education is key" drum for children and guns in regards to gun control.

If you're gonna let your kids use guns for any reason, you as a parent need to educate them about safety. Or, have them take a class. No arguments. It's being a responsible adult, nothing more or less.

How does this relate to gun control and making society safer?

Do you think the more young children that are exposed to guns and taught gun safety the safer society will be? That minimizing the chance of accidental shootings by kids who already have access to guns correlates to decreasing gun violence in society somehow?

Do you disagree that a child who's in a house with no guns and never had gun education is more safe from a gun accident or gun violence at home than one who has been taught about guns and is handing guns?

Do you disagree that it's fully irresponsible for parents to leave loaded guns anywhere in the home that children can reach or access/handle them, even if the child has been taught safety education?

Do you think that a child who's been taught gun safety is any more or less likely to be subject to rage, mental illness, criminal tendencies...as a minor or in adulthood?

Other than minimizing the risk of your children accidentally hurting themselves or others when you allow them to use guns, what is education the key to here?

Thanks, F.U. Honestly trying to understand.

1 Its a gun safety issue in my book. It may do nothing for gun violence but I am not sure. It will however reduce the risk of the negligent discharging of a firearm by a child. That in turn might reduce that child's risk of shooting lets say a sister, brother etc.


2. Is a child safer in a home that has no firearms. Possibly, the exceptions would be drive by shootings, a guest in that home that may have a gun. Now is that child safer when he leaves his home? No. he don't have the skills needed to deal with the presence of a firearm should he come across one in a neighbors home, school, the park or just walking down the street.


3 yes and no. Is a cops child any less safe when his parent comes home and takes their duty weapon off for the night? I don't think so but that depends on how that parent deals with the firearm. If they throw it on the coffee table and leave the house to go, lets say, mow the lawn then yes the child is less safe. If they put the firearm away, in their room and lock the room [I have a outside keyed entry door handle on my bedroom] then no.As long as the parent had direct control over that firearm then I feel it is a non issue.


4 That is a tricky one. In directly it may. I say that because I feel that children need adult interaction to become adults with good values. Any interaction is better than none. It may be no different than playing ball, riding a bike or playing at the park, but a child without adult interaction is left to himself to develop their own set of values. Where do they then learn them, TV, Video games, their class mates, friends etc. Those influences can be counterproductive to the good development of a child.


5 The risk of accidentally shooting someone is a big one. However I feel that as a child is brought up around firearms they learn what a firearm can do. You cannot call a bullet back after you pull the trigger. That bullet destroys whatever it is aimed at. I think in seeing [a good visual I use is milk jugs full of H20 & food coloring, or melons like watermelons etc.] the destruction caused by that firearm/bullet a child learns respect for them. I have no proof of that, it is just a gut feeling.