12-14-2013, 09:15 PM
As much as that makes logical sense, realistically it is not going to happen anytime soon. So it may be time to take a different tack that will give immediate reward.
The standard has been to demonize guns to children. It doesn't take a genius to recognize that telling a child to never do something without fully educating them is just going to fire up their imagination. Perhaps it is time to begin firearm education. Teach them the hows and whys of guns, allow them to fire a gun under safe supervision. Remove the mystique and I believe many accidents would be avoided.
Ys, adults should lock up their guns but too many do not and many never will. By teaching a child what a gun can do, I believe they will be less apt to play with one when found.
Gun education use to be the norm and the tragedies were far fewer. Will this stop every accident? of course not but neither has the fear lesson which has become the modern norm.
The standard has been to demonize guns to children. It doesn't take a genius to recognize that telling a child to never do something without fully educating them is just going to fire up their imagination. Perhaps it is time to begin firearm education. Teach them the hows and whys of guns, allow them to fire a gun under safe supervision. Remove the mystique and I believe many accidents would be avoided.
Ys, adults should lock up their guns but too many do not and many never will. By teaching a child what a gun can do, I believe they will be less apt to play with one when found.
Gun education use to be the norm and the tragedies were far fewer. Will this stop every accident? of course not but neither has the fear lesson which has become the modern norm.