I’m only half joking, because at this point the kids might as well be able to fight back rather than is doing fuck all while countless are fed to the golden throne.
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Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 days agoYou anti gun people are using the same argument as religious people talking about sex ed. “Should we teach kids how to be safe around guns? No! Just make sure they never ever encounter one!”
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
The one I linked specifically mentions shooting afterwards…
But yes if guns are at home they should be locked and totally inaccessible to kids. Teaching single digit age kids about guns is not a substitute for that, but of course I’m not saying you shouldn’t teach your kids that they shouldn’t touch guns and what they can do.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ok but it’s still a pretty obviously good idea. Will definitely save lives. Children’s lives.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Teaching kids to use guns doesn’t save kids’ lives. If you want to teach em to stay away from guns, that they’re deadly, they shouldn’t touch it and should tell an adult right away go ahead.
Teaching kids to use guns in the name of gun safety is like saying if you don’t teach a kid to drive what’s to stop them from getting hit by a car.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That IS gun safety education.
Also the first rule of gun safety: a gun is ALWAYS LOADED
Arbiter@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Assuming well monitored by adults letting kids shoot isn’t that big of a deal.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Source for preschoolers in “the heroes program”?
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Already in the comment, click the links.
www.safekidsinc.com/hero-program-overview
Here’s where it goes through their curriculum per grade level including pre schoolers.
It’s not teaching pre schoolers to use guns, that was the other link (for 7 year olds and up).
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 days ago
I don’t see the problem with teaching 7 year olds firearm safety. You’re throwing your credibility out the window by including that.
Beyond that though, it is sad, but it isn’t a gun problem. Yes, getting rid of guns would get rid of most shootings. However, it wouldn’t deal with the underlying problems causing these incidents, and it wouldn’t help the vast majority of violence in schools. Also, most school shootings, contrary to popular belief, are one or two people, not mass shootings. When our schools are a home to bullies, sexually abusive staff, racially segregated districts (yes, in the 21st century), economically segregated districts, republican defunding efforts, a loss of teachers especially during and immediately post-pandemic, and racially based gangs that perform regular violence against each other, it comes as no surprise, at least to me, that this violence is occurring. If it wasn’t a gun, it would be another weapon. We need to focus on the actual problems, not the ones that make us sad and grab our attention, especially when disarming the populace gives our already authoritarian police state even more power.