On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:03:19 PM UTC-5, JustWait wrote:
On 1/22/2013 8:56 PM, wrote:

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:46:38 PM UTC-5, ESAD wrote:

South Carolina wants to teach kids to shoot guns...





I agree that the state should stay out of it... the schools shouldn't be teaching gun safety. That should be left up to the family. My dad taught me how to handle a gun safely... what to do, and not do. Unfortunately, many families these days don't have anything resembling a responsible parent to do that. That's why we see the gun violence we now have.



Schools should teach the three R's, and in your case, civic responsibility. Like how to pay your taxes, deadbeat harold. If you do, maybe one day you can have your name on a house again.





Just don't know where most parents would find a place to teach their

kids to shoot... All the places I would have gone when I was young, are

either houses, or private property... Not a practical solution. If kids

were all going to learn, school would be the place to do it. However I

would be against that.



If I want to learn to shoot, I would have to pay for a place to do it.

Well, maybe "I" wouldn't but most folks don't know as many outside types

as we do.

I think there's more to it than just learning how to put holes in paper. It seem obvious that some these days have no respect for life. That's a lesson that gets taught at an early age, in my case partially by hunting with dad. You learn that, by pointing and pulling the trigger at some living animal, it dies. The first time I killed a deer it was exciting but also sobering, especially when helping to skin it and cut it up. It's not as clean, neat, or fun as movies and video games make it appear. Gives you some perspective.

It helped me understand that a gun is a tool for hunting and self, or home, defense. It's not for conflict resolution, or to be used in anger. And I still enjoyed the venison.