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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri schools will be encouraged to teach first-graders a gun safety course sponsored by the National Rifle Association as a result of legislation signed Friday by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The new law stops short of requiring schools to teach the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program. But by putting it in state law, Missouri is providing one of the stronger state-sanctioned endorsements of the NRA-sponsored firearms safety course, which the group says is taught to about 1 million children annually.
The legislation also requires school personnel to participate in an “active shooter and intruder” drill led by law enforcement officers.
If fire safety, sex ed, drug prevention programs like DARE and drivers ed are good ideas so is gun safety. In fact to oppose teaching gun safety to little kids is negligence!!!!!!!
It is galactically beyond logic for anti gun folks to claim so many victims of firearms, knowing guns are ubiquitous and not teach firearm safety. This is truly a case of head in the sand emotion over common sense.
You can't point your finger or eat a pop tart into the shape of a gun without severe consequences yet these bastions of child protection fail to provide gun safet information.
Any gun safety course would show images of firearms and that is verbotim in the new nazi like social justice portals formerly called schools.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri schools will be encouraged to teach first-graders a gun safety course sponsored by the National Rifle Association as a result of legislation signed Friday by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The new law stops short of requiring schools to teach the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program. But by putting it in state law, Missouri is providing one of the stronger state-sanctioned endorsements of the NRA-sponsored firearms safety course, which the group says is taught to about 1 million children annually.
The legislation also requires school personnel to participate in an “active shooter and intruder” drill led by law enforcement officers.
The "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program is a GREAT tool for educating kids about guns!
I think it is a wonderful idea to teach it as early as possible! http://www.nra.org/Article.aspx?id=1353
or, just google it
The "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program is a GREAT tool for educating kids about guns!
I think it is a wonderful idea to teach it as early as possible! Article
or, just google it
Agree
If people do not understand what the Eddie the eagle program is you should google it before replying to this thread.
My niece will be in first grade next year. If someone tried to show her how to shoot a gun I'd have the person arrested.
How about waiting until maybe 10 or 12 years old? Cars are way more deady than guns and one can't drive until one is 16.
My niece will be in first grade next year. If someone tried to show her how to shoot a gun I'd have the person arrested.
How about waiting until maybe 10 or 12 years old? Cars are way more deady than guns and one can't drive until one is 16.
I prefer earlier age than you. Did you by chance, take a look at the "Eddie the Eagle" program?
I am going to be teaching my daughter when she is a little older. (she is 2 now and obviously waaaay too young)
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