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After blowback, Philly police yank NRA’s gun safety curriculum from city rec centers
BillyPenn ^
| 04/15/2021
| Max Marin
Posted on 04/16/2021 9:48:18 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Philadelphia Police Department is ending its use of a youth gun education program created by the National Rifle Association following immediate blowback over the gun rights organization’s involvement.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw had announced police officers were using the “Eddie Eagle” curriculum to teach children about guns in city rec centers, as part of the Kenney administration’s larger anti-violence unveiled Wednesday.
Studies found the 33-year-old gun safety program to be ineffective, and the NRA has used it to argue against new gun regulations, Billy Penn reported this morning.
Gun safety advocates and city leaders pushed back. CeaseFire PA gathered hundreds of signatures from people calling for the department to drop the NRA-connected program. Councilmember Isaiah Thomas called it “two steps backwards,” and Councilmember Jamie Gauthier tweeted that “these are the last people we need to be partnering with on gun violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at billypenn.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: eddieeagle; gunsafety; saveslives
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To: Kid Shelleen
Studies found the 33-year-old gun safety program to be ineffective Ooh. "Studies." By whom? Sarah Brady? Lol.
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posted on
04/16/2021 9:50:50 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Kid Shelleen
Studies, by whom? Drunk moms wanting action?
To: Kid Shelleen
Gun safety should be taught right up there with how to cross a street.
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posted on
04/16/2021 9:54:44 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: Kid Shelleen
“...Councilmember Jamie Gauthier tweeted that “these are the last people we need to be partnering with on gun violence.”
But Jamie, ‘gun violence’ isn’t really the problem in your fair city, is it? It’s ‘people violence’ and moreover it is certain people violence. Things aren’t going to get better until people like you are willing to recognize the elephant in the room and be willing to talk about the elephant in the room.
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posted on
04/16/2021 9:56:45 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Kid Shelleen
So, how many of the students passing the course have had gun accidents or been charged with gun crimes?
THAT is how you determine whether the program has been effective!!!
It is also why they refused to present any such data.
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posted on
04/16/2021 9:57:33 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Write in Donald J. Trump on ALL MLB All-Star Ballots!!!!!)
To: Kid Shelleen
Ineffective at what? Getting enough people scared of a basic tool that it is easier to ban them?
That’s the point.
These people have no shame, honor, or morals. Ideology uber Alles...
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posted on
04/16/2021 9:58:40 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: rigelkentaurus
Suburban Marxist Karren’s.
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posted on
04/16/2021 9:59:19 AM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(America Cowboy up!)
To: Seruzawa
Studies found the 33-year-old gun safety program to be ineffectiveGun safety program is ineffective but soft porn sex education programs for 5 year olds are completely effective. Ok, got it.
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:03:14 AM PDT
by
New Perspective
(#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Philadelphia is a lost cause to begin with. it’s pretty bad when you’re making your first trip to Philly and everyone around you warns you about it rather than say have a great time!
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:06:32 AM PDT
by
caww
( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
To: Kid Shelleen
Any bets that those that claim the program is ineffective are Diddunuffin supporters and families that never attended an Eddie Eagle seminar or class?
To: hanamizu
I call BS on these people and their way of thinking. They need to go after the thugs who obtain guns illegally.
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:15:30 AM PDT
by
hsmomx3
To: Seruzawa
The dems have for decades, been ineffective at running the city and that doesn’t seem to bother them.
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:24:16 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
( )
To: Kid Shelleen
Meanwhile Red China continues their training....
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:24:25 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
To: Kid Shelleen
Always “blowback,” “uproar,” “outrage,” or “draws fire” from these maniacs.
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:28:07 AM PDT
by
Luke21
To: Kid Shelleen
The city is a shithole and should just have a net thrown around it
To: Kid Shelleen
So instead of teaching gun safety, they will have “gun abstinence” indoctrination.
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:52:26 AM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...
Pennsylvania Ping!
Please ping me with articles of interest.
FReepmail me to be added to the list.
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posted on
04/16/2021 10:53:08 AM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: Kid Shelleen
“Studies found the 33-year-old gun safety program to be ineffective . . .”
Get the Chicago gun safety program that is so effective.
To: hsmomx3
They need to go after the thugs
That’s the elephant I was referring to.
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posted on
04/16/2021 11:25:32 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
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