Posted on 03/10/2025 8:34:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A new law in Arkansas means students enrolled in the state’s public schools will begin attending a mandatory gun safety course during the 2025-2026 school year.
FOX News reported that House Bill 1117 was signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) last week.
HB 1117 was sponsored by state Rep. Scott Richardson (R-Bentonville), who explained the conversations with neighbors led to the idea of gun safety training for students, “All of our children play together and invade whatever home happens to be the play of the day. And in that process, they may go into a neighbor’s home and discover that unsecured firearm, and how would they react.”
5 News Online noted the curriculum/safety instruction to be used in the course will be developed by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC).
AGFC spokesman Trey Reid believes the state’s hunter education program can serve as a loose guide in fashioning the public school course.
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The way the commie RATS are acting up, they’re going to need it.
Howz about throwing in some anti-leftist/DEI/idiot training to boot? The left is sooooo much more dangerous than guns.
invade whatever home happens to be the play of the day
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Someone’s clutch is slipping...
I absolutely agree with this! Teach them as young as possible while they are impressionable.
My high school had a .22 gun range for ROTC members. I think its still there.
So sorry
It’s a good first step. Once the dust settles, bring back the basement gun ranges in schools and follow up with rifle and pistol marksmanship training.
The cubs have all had training with weapons but some of their friends have not.
The reasons vary as to why. If you can believe it some parents do not think it is necessary because "they have always been around guns". And they have always been around food, that does not mean they know how to cook. Others say that they will do it "some day when they are older". If you are in school you are old enough to learn the basics.
Heh....should be a short class. Most kids in AR know more than adults on gun safety.
I agree. We had Hunter Safety Course’s in Colorado. We also had a rifle team in high school. Those kids could shoot!
Good idea.
It’s a good idea but I’m not too sure about the mandatory part.
Sanders is quite an improvement over Hutchinson
Better skills with firearms than learning about sexual perversion.
Heck yeah. They teach all that stuff on Call of Duty.
I’m 80....When we were young...say 12....we went to Grandpa’s farm and learned....How do you think pioneer kids learned??
Marek my words the curriculum will include telling kids to go home and call the police and tell them so and so has guns in their house.
A friend lost a son because of a 22 and a 14 year old boy’s curiosity.
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