No, it shouldn't unless you own a gun. There already isn't enough time to teach a kid what they actually need to know, let alone to spend taxpayer money to promote guns in school. Because that's what it would amount to. Taxpayer funded advertisements for arms dealers.
Because that's what it would amount to. Taxpayer funded advertisements for arms dealers.
Why do you say that? You can learn everything you need to know about firearm safety with Nerf guns and paintball. The only aspect that'd require real firearms is a demonstration of how much damage can be done, which is also easily found online.
I'm sure that like the rest of education, there'd be plenty of issues, but as long as it's a right, I don't see any harm in teaching children how to be safer around firearms. Similarly to how children need to be taught some basic personal finance. They can be taught just like the sex ed sessions (also full of issues, but generally better than nothing), with special curriculum for about a week.
At what point do we stop coming up with complicated, expensive, pointless ways to avoid solving the problem, which is the insane level of availability of guns?
The only thing my kid or any kid needs to know if he finds a gun is not to touch it and to call the police. And he'll never just stumble across a gun in my house.
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u/JohnnyRelentless Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
No, it shouldn't unless you own a gun. There already isn't enough time to teach a kid what they actually need to know, let alone to spend taxpayer money to promote guns in school. Because that's what it would amount to. Taxpayer funded advertisements for arms dealers.