We need mandatory gun safety class in every school.
“We need mandatory gun safety class in every school.”
When I went to school in the 1950s, you had a choice, learn to play a musical instrument in band or learn firearms safety and marksmanship taught by a certified NRA instructor.
I never learned to play a musical instrument.
I took a gun safety course just before I became a teenager, some 60 plus years ago. It must have been given by the NRA, though I don’t remember anything about the organization offering it. I remember vividly the important rules, though. You never ever, ever allow a gun under your control to be inadvertently pointed at another human being. You always unload a gun for transportation and storage. You never, under any condition look down the barrel of a gun. It always amazed me, when ever AI saw others violating these rules.
I took the course sometime during my fourth and fifth grade at school. I remember it because I was attending a two room country school for those two grades. The school had a very strict gun control policy: Any weapon brought to school must be unloaded before entering the school building, and stored unloaded in the coat room. No exceptions were tolerated. My, how times have changed.