[Eagle Eye]

Go ahead, laugh. Bet you got a big chuckle out of my guns and explosives safety course requirement to get out of highschool didn't you?

No need to make guns and expolsive required high school courses. None. High schools are NOT the places for paramilitary training.

However, the Scouts used to offer gun safety training, and most communities can still offer fire arms safety and other safety classed via the local fire department.

[muawiyah]

The kids graduate at about the age of 18, and the State Constitution says they are now members of the militia.

Highschool is the proper place to teach these things. I know it's a little short of UMT, but that's the other option.

[Don Joe]

"No need to make guns and expolsive required high school courses. None. High schools are NOT the places for paramilitary training.

You equate gun safety classes with "paramilitary" training?

I helped teach a hunter safety course -- in a high school -- and I assure you that there was definitely no "paramilitary" aspect to the class, period.

"However, the Scouts used to offer gun safety training, and most communities can still offer fire arms safety and other safety classed via the local fire department."

By your own logic, you are advocating having the Boy Scouts and the fire department provide "paramilitary training"? Odd...