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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Wasn’t this common at one time? Pretty sure I remember it as school sponsored after school activity in many places.
They will be perfectly trained to join the German Army.
Wow! Kudos...
We should all send a donation.
Actually schools used to do this before the anti-gun hysteria began in 1968.
Had it in my school in 1985.
My dad remembers having a firing range in the school basement where they shot actual guns.
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.
However, any parent objecting to abortion services, transgender lunacy or liberal indoctrination in general will be told, "Pound sand!"
Finally, someone gets what REAL gun safety is all about.
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.
Yup! Plenty of guns in rifle racks in pick ups in high school in Albuquerque mid 60’s.
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.
Oh, I don't know about that.
I remember this one time at band camp ...
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.
not far from me.
very rural areas. lotsa farm boys, (and farm girls, too)
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.
I’ve probably caused more hearing loss from gee-tar amps than shootin’ stuff. :-)
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.
My father in law had an M-1. Loved it.
My goal is to someday get my hands on a Springfield 1903.
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