Posted on 02/01/2008 7:08:30 AM PST by XR7
West Virginia is considering a bill to teach schoolchildren how to handle a gun and hunt safely its proponent hopes will increase state revenues from hunting licenses, a state lawmaker said Thursday. "We will teach a hunting safety course during their physical education class," state senator and bill sponsor Billy Wayne Bailey told AFP. The courses would be imparted in secondary schools, from the eighth to 10th grade (13-16 years of age)...
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The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) promotes firearms safety training and rifle practice for all qualified U.S. citizens with special emphasis on youth. The CMP operates through a network of affiliated shooting clubs and associations that covers every state in the U.S. The clubs and associations offer firearms safety training and marksmanship courses as well as the opportunity for continued practice and competition.
The CMP was created by the U.S. Congress. The original purpose was to provide civilians an opportunity to learn and practice marksmanship skills so they would be skilled marksmen if later called on to serve the U.S. military. Over the years the emphasis of the program shifted to focus on youth development through marksmanship. From 1916 until 1996 the CMP was administered by the U.S. Army. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (TITLE XVI) created the Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice & Firearms Safety, Inc. (CPRPFS) to take over administration and promotion of the CMP. The CPRPFS is a tax exempt not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that derives its mission from public law.
Who knew West Virginia would be the forerunner in education techniques?
Go WV!!
Why so late? My (almost) 6yr old can bullseye NRA smallbore 50yd rifle targets at 25yds with my 10/22
I posted this on the previous thread
I don’t believe it for a second.
Just a few months ago every school in my WV county went into lockdown. SWAT, sheriff’s dept., state troopers and muni police were called to the high school. The reason was that someone found a live .22 round somewhere on school grounds OUTSIDE the school building.
I have advocated for exactly this for years now. I would also be more than willing to help with our local schools either as a volunteer or via donations should they try and set up something equivalent.
I was shooting Remington youth model single bolt actions when I was about that age in school up in Western, CT back in the mid-1950s.
Regardless, maybe WV will begin a new trend in bringing back some of America's freedoms (Second Amendment - Keep and Bear Arms) that is trying to be confiscated by The Brady Bunch and the Clinton Confiscators.
Outstanding!
Take a Kid to a Gun Show.
As much as I knew about guns I remember a demo once by a ‘sharpshooter’ who used a hollow point to shoot a watermelon. Wow! It was spectacular and really impressed me with what a single shot could do. For most of us our gun experience was limited to .22 cal single-shot bolt rifles or maybe our Dad’s .32 cal snub nose or even a 12 gauge shotgun with bird shot or maybe buck shot. The watermelon demo made a lasting impression on a kid. The king of the hill had a .22 hornet!
Guns are a mystery to kids today, including many of those who live in the inner-city and carry one.
Of course, the opponents of the proposed education will tell us it just teaches the kids how to use a gun. Funny, they will buy that idea when it comes to guns, but not when it comes to sex. An afterthought: The spell checker does not recognize the word "gauge". Hmmm..
DEFINITE ping of interest!
That was my take on the idea -
What’s a lib’s kneejerk reaction to firearms accident statistics? Restriction and regulation, not education.
What’s a lib’s kneejerk reaction to sexual “accident” statistics? More sex ed, more explicit sex ed, more sex ed about “alternative” sex...
They have the same approach to global warming.
They say even if it’s not happening the possible results are so bad that we have to act as though it’s a reality.
Then they turn right around and say, Iraq and WMD, not to worry. No evidence, etc. Surely Chicago going up in a mushroom cloud is as bad, and much more immediate, than the world’s oceans rising several feet over the next 100 years.
Their take on anything seems to be based on how it fits their liberal agenda.
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This is just a superfluous education boondoggle. Everyone knows marksmanship is hard-wired on every West Virginian’s genetic code.
I had NRA hunter safety course in High School gym class two years in a row. It was good even though it was over 40 years ago. Hunter safety is required to get a hunting license now so you have to enroll in your own class now.
They act like their "liberal" judges - ruling based solely on their ideology with no consideration for the "facts" or the Constitution.
I fondly recall going to school (in Virginia) on the bus as a lad with my shotgun at my side. We left our firearms (unattended) in the coatroom until school ended, then walked home through open fields Dove hunting in the afternoon. Things have certainly changed since the 60s.
For the first time since we’ve moved to West byGod Virginia there’s something in this state to be half-way proud of. Half-way, because the bottom line is just a scheme for the state to increase permit revenues and the youngsters involved will be limited to “disabled” firearms.
When my boy is old enough I’ll teach him firearm respect and how to shoot, thank you very much, but it’ll be nice to do it in a state where panic won’t breakout when he tells someone about it.
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