Why don't we teach gun safety?

[+paradox]

so, if a highly trained professional is capable to be reckless with a gun, why would we trust children with guns?

 

[seasidemike]

how can you teach gun safety when guns are not safe?
How safe was it when that 10 year old girl blew the head off of her instructor with an Uzi? That was a controlled gun safety use lesson taking place and look how well that went.

 

[Bluezone777]

The gun isn't dangerous until it is in the hands of either a fool or a person bent on doing evil. The problem lies with the user and not the firearm itself. I like to point out that banning something doesn't make someone incapable of obtaining and using it. Something that the pro gun ban crowd doesn't get.

 

[+paradox]

trusting young humans with a lethal weapon sounds foolish to me...

regardless if i'm pro gun or not...

 

[Sinon]

trusting young humans with a lethal weapon sounds foolish to me...

regardless if i'm pro gun or not...

Sums up my opinion on the matter pretty well.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

trusting young humans with a lethal weapon sounds foolish to me...

regardless if i'm pro gun or not...

We had young kids fighting in the revolutionary war for our freedoms. If properly trained it is not a problem.

And this mother also agrees.

Eleven-year-old shoots man who was stabbing her mom — "The Oklahoma City Police Department says an 11-year-old girl shot a man who got into a fight with the child's mom at a SE OKC mobile home Wednesday morning.... Five children were inside the home when the incident happened.... 25-year-old Leonard Demon Henry broke in through the glass door and began attacking his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her.... That's when police say the victim's young daughter shot him twice. Police say when they arrived, the found him running from the home with a gun shot wound." [A stupid question for gun banners: What would the outcome have been if the young girl didn't have a gun? Her mom would be dead, and there's a good chance that some or all of the children would be dead or injured. Ban guns? You're crazy.]

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

so, if a highly trained professional is capable to be reckless with a gun, why would we trust children with guns?

Because we had young children bringing guns to school for a hundred years to gun clubs before the left took over our schools without a issue. This idiot went about it in a half ass way. They should have been handing him the guns with the slide locked back so there was no chance of there being a bullet left in the gun.

 

[+paradox]

trusting young humans with a lethal weapon sounds foolish to me...

regardless if i'm pro gun or not...

We had young kids fighting in the revolutionary war for our freedoms. If properly trained it is not a problem.

And this mother also agrees.

Eleven-year-old shoots man who was stabbing her mom — "The Oklahoma City Police Department says an 11-year-old girl shot a man who got into a fight with the child's mom at a SE OKC mobile home Wednesday morning.... Five children were inside the home when the incident happened.... 25-year-old Leonard Demon Henry broke in through the glass door and began attacking his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her.... That's when police say the victim's young daughter shot him twice. Police say when they arrived, the found him running from the home with a gun shot wound." [A stupid question for gun banners: What would the outcome have been if the young girl didn't have a gun? Her mom would be dead, and there's a good chance that some or all of the children would be dead or injured. Ban guns? You're crazy.]

and i'm sure back in that day the guns weren't guns compared to what we have these days...

guns these days are way more dangerous than a one shot musket or a one shot pistol...

also, children actually fighting in the war with guns were few and far between... almost all of the children, if not all of the children that did help in the fight were mostly non-combat duties such as a powder monkey or a midshipman in the navy and fifers/drummers in the army bands...

why do you assume that if children are "properly trained" then it would not be an issue when there's adult professionals everyday shooting themselves and others... are you a madman or what?

 

[+paradox]

so, if a highly trained professional is capable to be reckless with a gun, why would we trust children with guns?

Because we had young children bringing guns to school for a hundred years to gun clubs before the left took over our schools without a issue. This idiot went about it in a half ass way. They should have been handing him the guns with the slide locked back so there was no chance of there being a bullet left in the gun.

yeah, because letting our crazy children bring a very powerful and dangerous tool/weapon to school in this crazy world is just the right answer and what we need, right?

give me a break here...

yeah, my point exactly, if highly trained professionals can easily mess up and shot themselves and/or others, then how would you expect children to be any better, especially in a school where children fight all the time...

children have guns in school = more school shootings, violence and deaths...

good job...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

trusting young humans with a lethal weapon sounds foolish to me...

regardless if i'm pro gun or not...

We had young kids fighting in the revolutionary war for our freedoms. If properly trained it is not a problem.

And this mother also agrees.

Eleven-year-old shoots man who was stabbing her mom — "The Oklahoma City Police Department says an 11-year-old girl shot a man who got into a fight with the child's mom at a SE OKC mobile home Wednesday morning.... Five children were inside the home when the incident happened.... 25-year-old Leonard Demon Henry broke in through the glass door and began attacking his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her.... That's when police say the victim's young daughter shot him twice. Police say when they arrived, the found him running from the home with a gun shot wound." [A stupid question for gun banners: What would the outcome have been if the young girl didn't have a gun? Her mom would be dead, and there's a good chance that some or all of the children would be dead or injured. Ban guns? You're crazy.]

and i'm sure back in that day the guns weren't guns compared to what we have these days...

Yes they were more dangerous for the individual using them. And They required more training on how to use them in terms of loading and firing.

guns these days are way more dangerous than a one shot musket or a one shot pistol...

They both fire with a trigger then and now. That bullet is no more dangerous then as it is now. And I do not remember any bayonets being on the ends of guns in todays homes

also, children actually fighting in the war with guns were few and far between... almost all of the children, if not all of the children that did help in the fight were mostly non-combat duties such as a powder monkey or a midshipman in the navy and fifers/drummers in the army bands...

That is true to a point but many did face the enemy on both sides with rifles. Even Andrew Jackson as a little boy joined up to fight at 13.

If they weren't displaced, teenagers could and did participate in the fighting, as described by Metz. In colonial America, more than half of the population was under 16. Starting at age 16, boys could be drafted by the British or by the rebels. However, many volunteered to serve when they were much younger than that. Since boys were taken from home to fight at a young age, their sisters usually had to pick up the slack in household chores, taking on a bigger workload and sometimes helping out with the family business. Like Johnny, many teenagers worked as spies, passing information to Tory or rebel leaders.
http://www.gradesaver.com/johnny-tremain/study-guide/children-and-teenagers-in-the-american-revolution

why do you assume that if children are "properly trained" then it would not be an issue when there's adult professionals everyday shooting themselves and others... are you a madman or what?

Because it was done for a hundred years in schools by people specifically trained for safety while handling a gun or rifle. Guns are not going anywhere in this country. Let children at young age know just how dangerous they are and the proper way to handle them so those daily accidents at home happen less. Maybe that next kid who finds a gun in a friends house saves there lives because they do not mess with it out of curiosity but instead got the training to know they should leave it alone.