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My standard speech is simple, "I have knives all over the place and the guns are real. Leave them alone."
We were taught how to shoot in school in the 80's- Asheville NC.
I think the only people stupid enough to feel in danger by the mere presence of an inanimate object are also the only ones stupid enough to accidentally/negligently hurt others and/or themselves with said object.
It's the hiding "danger" crap that has made us weak. Took me 10 minutes per child to teach them about fire. They were toddlers. I lit a candle and set it on the coffee table. I said nothing. They all touched the flame. One out of 3 touched it twice. (my son, don't ask)
No more medical aid was required other than an ice-cube for 10 seconds.
This idea that "gun education" is simply the act of ignoring them and removing them from our presence is criminally careless.
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Tell me you don't keep hand grenades at home. I mean, that whole kitchen table scenario would look a whole lot different with grenades.
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No, grenades are bad, They blow people up.
Wait, grenades don't do squat, people throw them.....
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"I know he took the pin out dear. Just let him be. He'll only do it once."
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Wow, yeah Rick, I also lay out spike strips for my driver age kids.
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:) I pretty much took the similar approach as winter, haven't had a problem. My sons actually call me if they want to use/handle one of my guns. They both have .22's in revolvers and rifle's and the oldest has a 20ga and 410. If you take the time to teach them and realize that guns/knives are tools and not some magical super weapon I just found you'll be alright. If you don't have time to teach this you need no firearms.
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I've taught my kids and grandkids and still continue to teach with the grandkids. I keep the weapons locked away though. The strongest point is I don't want one of them to do something dumb. They are just kids. The second thing is if something did happen, aside from the heartbreak, I'd have to deal with the legal consequences. Around here, that's pretty severe if it's because a weapon was left out.
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In grade school we all carried rifles or shotguns to and from, depending on what hunting season it was. Went to boarding school during the high school years, if you had a hunting license you could keep rifle and/or shotgun in a locked room and sign it out to go hunting after classes or on weekends, this was 1964 - 68
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I took my deer rifle to school for show-and-tell when I was in gradeschool. The teacher really like it (Reminton 700 BDL in .30-06). This would have been in the late 70's/early 80's.
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I grew up in rural NE Missouri.in the late 40's and 50's. 5 miles outside a town of 300. Shotgun and rifle were taken to school, stored in the wall lockers during the school hours and used to hunt with on the way home.
I also remember buying a rifle in town and taking it home on the school bus. Different time and attitude. No one was doing drive bys, fist fights was the norm for settling disputes. We all carried knives, even in school as they were a normal tool for farm work, which we did before and after school.
We also had recess, PE and thought nothing of walking where we wanted to go. My friend lived 2 1/2 miles up the gravel road from me and we walked it to visit.
My wood shop teacher brought a 1893 Swedish Mauser carbine to school and made a stock for it, during class. He showed us how to use a wood lath.
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We all had guns in our trucks in highschool. I grew up in the country everyone hunted. I also grew up
Living next to a elementary, I high school I got home before theirs got out and used o always cut
Through the school yard with my shotgun to go hunting and never got more then a wave from any of the staff. These days SWAT would be deployed and I would be in big trouble..
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A buddy of mine accidentally left some shotgun shells sitting on the seat of his truck and was suspended for a week. I had a hatchet and maul in the back of my truck (the camper shell was locked) and I was "politely" asked to leave them at home from now on, it made cutting wood after school very complicated.
Oh, that was in a farming town of around 1000, a couple years back.
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Class of 1992, Western NY, took my S&W 12 gauge to school for my senior picture. Brought it back a month later and handed it to the principal to keep in his office because we were going deer hunting after school. Seemed to all change after Columbine. Tragedy it was, but a shame that it set the precedence that everyone rural or city now has to follow.
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