[Sthitch]

While I agree that school would be a great place to teach gun safety, I wonder how it would jibe with all of the silly zero tolerance policies that schools have. It seems like it would be difficult to discuss it without showing a picture of a gun, or using the word gun. As we know, the simple act of drawing a gun will get you arrested in most of our schools.

[randog]

Y'know, the kids are gonna kill each other anyway, so we may as well teach them to do it safely.

</sarcasm>

[larryw408]

As long as it follows the Eddie the Eagle program (Stop! Don't Touch! Leave The Area! Tell An Adult) and doesn't become another, "Guns are evil and kill" exercise in socialism, I'm all for it.

[xcamel]

And they haven't sent this guy to a "reeducation camp" yet ???

[ElkGroveDan]

For the record that looks like one of many policies letters that members are allowed to send out under the political reform act. (they are often called "200-letters")

California legislators are barred from sending out "newsletters" at taxpayer expense under Proposition 40, and Assemblyman Maze certainly hasn't done that there.

That all said, great message. Bill is one of the good guys up here in Sacramento.

[newgeezer]

The Second Amendament of the United States Constitution protects the ability right of individuals to own firearms to protect their families from violent crime and to engage in recreational activities like huntiing and target shooting.

There. That's more like it.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The Second Amendament of the United States Constitution protects the ability of individuals to own firearms to protect their families from violent crime and to engage in recreational activities like huntiing and target shooting.

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Even Republicans don't understand what the 2nd is about. I prefer the Democrat view:

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn.
"Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.

[Myrddin]

Firearms safety should be lumped into the other "family life" style classes in school. It is a basic life (or death) skill. Learn it and handle firearms safely, or ignore it at your potential peril. If the kids want "hands on" time at the range, it should be available as a sponsored activity. Local ranges could schedule "slack time" at favorable rates for the student activity. The range owner improves facility utilization and the kids get a practical education in a safe, supervised facility.

[Redcloak]

A few years ago, there was a non-binding resolution in the CA Legislature to commend the NRA for the Eddie Eagle program. The Democrats refused to pass it. For all their yammering about "the chirllins", they could give a rip about doing anything that would actually keep children safe from firearms.

Telling rich, White guys that they can't own .50BMG target rifles is one thing, but praising an effective child safety program is quite another!