"F.O.A.D." wrote in message ...

On 6/12/13 4:57 PM, jps wrote:


I don't mind those who own guns responsibly and I suspect the gun
nuts
in rec.boats are responsible. What irks the **** out of me is when
responsible owners start talking about gun rights. As if they were
more important than any other right, including safety of the general
population from an over abundance of guns that make it out into the
streets and promote violence and easy answers to hard problems.

These jerks would give up all their rights to privacy, search and
seizure, free speech and whatever else as long as they can keep
there
little dick extensions.

Meanwhile, the country's kids are at risk from idiots who can't
manage
to keep their guns locked up.


There's no question that discussions about guns brings some really
crazy
people out of the woodwork. To be involved on an issue where the
others
on your side include the likes of Wayne LaPierre, the new crazyman who
is the head of the NRA and, of course, Ted Nugent, would make many
rational people get themselves "uninvolved."

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I recently heard about a proposal in some California location to add a
"gun safety" course to the curriculum in a charter school system.
My knee jerk reaction was that it was a stupid idea but then I thought
about it some more. It seems that school systems in general have had
to take on the responsibility of educating youth in all types of
subjects that are not related directly to academics and that in past
generations were handled by parents. Since firearms and their use are
so prevalent in our society, why shouldn't educating youth on their
dangers and safe handling not be included?

I took driver's education in Connecticut in 1964. One of the
classroom instruction periods was conducted by a trooper from the CT
State Police. He presented a movie (old fashioned projector back
then) with some of the most horrific and gory images of people
dismembered or having sustained horrible injuries or deaths due to car
crashes, mostly due to speeding. I don't remember much of anything
else specifically that was taught in classroom instruction of driver's
ed but the images contained in that presentation remain fresh in my
mind 47 years later.

My conclusion was that as much as some would like, guns are not going
to go away in our society. A little education never hurt anybody.