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Take a deep breath and relax.

Nobody is advocating gun safety classes on your dime or anyone else's.
There are plenty of qualified "gun nuts", including law enforcement
personnel who would be more than willing to make safety presentations
at a school or other extracurricular activity. And again, it's not
to teach youth about how to become proficient in the *use* a gun.
It's to educate them as to the dangers of firearms and their safe
handling should they come in the presence of one. I can see it as a
special event, much like field trips, in which participation is
voluntary and with the permission of the parents for their kid to
attend.

I have no problem with what other people do voluntarily.
But good luck with persuading most parents to expose
their kids to a "gun safety" class.
This is the first thing they'll see when they ponder it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhIJOVD8hwY
One of your LEO guys. They'll never allow this in a
public school classroom full of kiddies.
And I don't get what you mean by "safe handling should
they come in the presence of one." That's hands on.
Like this LEO with his "unloaded" gun.
Oh, really?
But if anybody wants to send their kid to a class like
this, I have no problem with it as long as it's at the
parents discretion.
If I was a gun man who wanted my kids to be gun kiddies,
I'd want to teach them "handling" myself, and I'd NEVER
trust strangers to do it.
Don't care if others choose differently.