07-07-2015, 12:01 PM
(07-05-2015, 01:00 PM)Maggot Wrote: I really don't fear the government, its distrust. What the government likes to do is make law abiding citizens pay the price of neglect by a few that are brain dead. Instead of targeting the real problem they go for the soft target.
Having neglected programs through schools and teaching children respect for guns by instituting scholastic achievement, society has demonized guns and the reason we have this right to keep them without infringement.
Instead of an atmosphere of fear, children and young adults should have a well rounded appreciation and respect for the tool. Just like a person would not jump into a running woodchipper through common sense, they should take the same precautions when holding a loaded weapon. Either one is a learned experience.
Education is the answer.
Gun respect and handling education is not the answer to reducing gun violence and it doesn't prevent toddler deaths.
Toddlers and small children do not have the mental capacity to be held responsible for avoiding or properly handling a loaded firearm. This is evidenced by medical/developmental science, unbiased situational experiments, and the occurrences of unintentional child shootings (by kids who've already been parent-educated in many cases). Do you really disagree that it's the parents' responsibility to protect their small children's safety by not affording them unsupervised access to loaded guns?
If you support the gun culture, that's fine. If you (collective) plan on leaving loaded unlocked guns in reach of your small children because you feel they're "educated", that's sad and negligent to me, but it's your choice and there's currently no law against it federally or in most states.
However, continuing to suggest that all kindergartners should be taught gun safety in public schools disregards completely the more than 50% of US households who choose to be gun-free. Plus, it solves no problem, IMO.
Anyway, if you want to indoctrinate your kids to guns, I agree that you should educate them as much as possible (and pray for the best if you leave loaded ones lying around). But, it's your responsibility as a parent to provide that education on your own time and your own dime, Lucas McCain. And you should be prosecuted if your small child shoots herself or anybody else.
