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Two Iowa School Districts Offer Gun Training/Safety Class in 7th Grade
cnsnews.com ^ | 5/2/2019 | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 05/02/2019 11:15:49 AM PDT by rktman

The North Butler and Clarksville school districts in Iowa are now offering a mandatory gun training/safety class ("Hunters Safety Course") to 7th and 8th grade students and a voluntary class for high schoolers in the evenings.

The classes started this semester and realistic but non-firing guns and replica ammunition are used, not actual guns.

"Please understand that we do not believe that all students will be hunting, nor do we expect them to," said school Superintendent Joel Foster in a blog post about the class. "The expectation is that through this all students will be exposed to firearm safety, and as such learn to respect and how to manage and control firearms."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; kaba
Huh? Actually provide pertinent education about firearms? When's the law suit? Paging shannon t watts.
1 posted on 05/02/2019 11:15:50 AM PDT by rktman
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Wasn’t this common at one time? Pretty sure I remember it as school sponsored after school activity in many places.


2 posted on 05/02/2019 11:20:34 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rktman
"Understand that no operable firearms will be present during the course nor will there be live ammunition present"

They will be perfectly trained to join the German Army.


3 posted on 05/02/2019 11:21:37 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rktman

Wow! Kudos...

We should all send a donation.


4 posted on 05/02/2019 11:23:14 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Can I get a shout out for the person(s) who donated $2,000.00 from France? Thanks so much! Wow!)
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To: rktman

Actually schools used to do this before the anti-gun hysteria began in 1968.


5 posted on 05/02/2019 11:23:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Had it in my school in 1985.


6 posted on 05/02/2019 11:24:22 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: gibsonguy

My dad remembers having a firing range in the school basement where they shot actual guns.


7 posted on 05/02/2019 11:29:00 AM PDT by matt04
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To: Mathews

Where our Boy Scout patrol met we had NRA Hunter Safety posters on the walls. I still remember shudders at a hunter handing his rifle to his friend over a fence with his friend grabbing the barrel while the owner had his finger inside the trigger guard. This was not much different from what Sen Feinstein did with a rifle in an anti gun rally.


8 posted on 05/02/2019 11:29:59 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer who also taught)
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To: rktman
...if a parent objects then their child does not have to participate in the class.

However, any parent objecting to abortion services, transgender lunacy or liberal indoctrination in general will be told, "Pound sand!"

9 posted on 05/02/2019 11:37:53 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1946)
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To: rktman

Finally, someone gets what REAL gun safety is all about.


10 posted on 05/02/2019 11:39:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: matt04

Same thing in Metro Detroit, we shot in the basement of the High School for Hunter Safety course.. Had to take at 12/13 years old to get hunting license... Circa 1974/75.


11 posted on 05/02/2019 11:41:26 AM PDT by dakine
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To: gibsonguy

Yup! Plenty of guns in rifle racks in pick ups in high school in Albuquerque mid 60’s.


12 posted on 05/02/2019 11:42:03 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I took firearms safety and marksmanship in the 7th & 8th grades. (Hampton Virginia 1959). It was either that or I’d have to learn to play a musical instrument.
Guns were the better choice.


13 posted on 05/02/2019 12:49:07 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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It was either that or I’d have to learn to play a musical instrument. Guns were the better choice.

Oh, I don't know about that.

I remember this one time at band camp ...

14 posted on 05/02/2019 12:53:04 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

I learned marksmanship in the Boy Scouts at camp.

Fired .22’s and bows.

Plus my dad was US Army Korea infantry vet. He was a great instructor.


15 posted on 05/02/2019 12:56:44 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: rktman

not far from me.

very rural areas. lotsa farm boys, (and farm girls, too)


16 posted on 05/02/2019 12:59:42 PM PDT by QualityMan
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
It was a rite of passage for us kids to take such a course at a local community organization (Elks Lodge, in my case) with instructors from the NRA. You got a signed card if you passed the course which entitled you to walk into your local hardware store and buy guns or ammunition at age 14.

Your parents had to be with you for anything considered deadly (.22 and above), but pellets, BBs and the like were fine if you showed the card and had the money.

17 posted on 05/02/2019 1:09:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: BlueLancer

I’ve probably caused more hearing loss from gee-tar amps than shootin’ stuff. :-)


18 posted on 05/02/2019 1:13:17 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Texas resident

Yes, Scout camp was my first experience with real fire arms, I had a daisy BB gun earlier but they are not the same.

Same with archery, Scout camp was one of the most formative experiences of my childhood.

My dad was not much involved, but I am an Eagle and so is our son. Dad was in the Navy, and owned an M1 gerund. But I never was allowed to shoot it.


19 posted on 05/02/2019 9:40:18 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer who also taught)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

My father in law had an M-1. Loved it.

My goal is to someday get my hands on a Springfield 1903.


20 posted on 05/03/2019 4:04:56 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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