Locally, we solve the misconceptions about firearms by taking kids to the range. Some proper firearms training and an afternoon shooting targets generally eclipses all the BS spewed by the union-owned socialist teachers.
My old man took us kids out to a waterfront facility one day and we spent an hour or two shooting at some soft yellow-pine boards backed by an enormous, 100-foot-high, 100-yard-long pile of clamshells dredged up for use as road metal (standard roadbuilding material in south Louisiana 50 years ago, still is).
He made sure we understood what the effects we were seeing on those 2x6" pine boards would equate to, if a person were ever struck by one of those little 40-grain soft-lead bullets fired by his old .22-cal. autopistol.
Back in 1965, Lyndon Johnson wanted to seize the Louisiana school system so he could forcibly integrate it. So he gave out federal grants for high-school football equipment. In the case of Opelousas schools (near Lafayette, La.), as soon as Opelousas High School accepted the equipment, the district was informed that they now worked for the United States Government and would do exactly as they were told, first time and every time without fail, immediately. The board members were also told they could not resign their positions; if they did, they would immediately go to prison.
That was Leon Panetta who did that for LBJ, by the way.
Same old faces, same old crew, over and over and over again.