Should there be a mandatory "Gun Safety" class in high schools?

[bucs90]

Just a thought. Should the states make their schools have a mandatory gun safety class to graduate? The class could be, say, part of the first semester of senior year, on Monday afternoons, for 2 hours. Whats that, about 20 total days, for 2 hours?

They dont have to use live guns. Glock makes "sim guns", where are 100% functioning Glocks, but with "simmunition", which is a chalk like 9mm bullet that fires and looks just like a real bullet. Cops use these to train all the time. Students could learn to use guns with these sim bullets, which are not deadly at all, and learn basic safety.

With as many guns as are out there, why not? We offer driver's ed. We offer education in almost any topic.....except weapon safety. Could maybe prevent a few tragedies.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Just a thought. Should the states make their schools have a mandatory gun safety class to graduate? The class could be, say, part of the first semester of senior year, on Monday afternoons, for 2 hours. Whats that, about 20 total days, for 2 hours?

They dont have to use live guns. Glock makes "sim guns", where are 100% functioning Glocks, but with "simmunition", which is a chalk like 9mm bullet that fires and looks just like a real bullet. Cops use these to train all the time. Students could learn to use guns with these sim bullets, which are not deadly at all, and learn basic safety.

With as many guns as are out there, why not? We offer driver's ed. We offer education in almost any topic.....except weapon safety. Could maybe prevent a few tragedies.

in high school we had optional firearms classes

back then we would bring our 22s to school

leave them in the principals office until shooting class

then go get them

and walk a couple of blocks to the national guard armory

have class then walk back to school with the firearms

and put them back with the principal until the end of the day

but yes it surely would be a good idea for mandatory classes

 

[9thIDdoc]

Absolutely. My wife and children have all attended Hunter Safety Classes which is offered by our Wildlife Resources Agency which is mostly gun safety and proper handling. Around here boys are very often hunting long before getting out of school.

 

[Lakhota]

Maybe, right after some sane non-religious sex education classes.

 

[Politico]

They should have never ended them.

 

[Agit8r]

If I recall, a certain teacher trained her son to shoot proficiently, and it didn't go so well.

 

[Wicked Jester]

Just a thought. Should the states make their schools have a mandatory gun safety class to graduate? The class could be, say, part of the first semester of senior year, on Monday afternoons, for 2 hours. Whats that, about 20 total days, for 2 hours?

They dont have to use live guns. Glock makes "sim guns", where are 100% functioning Glocks, but with "simmunition", which is a chalk like 9mm bullet that fires and looks just like a real bullet. Cops use these to train all the time. Students could learn to use guns with these sim bullets, which are not deadly at all, and learn basic safety.

With as many guns as are out there, why not? We offer driver's ed. We offer education in almost any topic.....except weapon safety. Could maybe prevent a few tragedies.

No, for obvious reasons.

What I would like to see is our public schools system actually start graduating students in overwhelming numbers, who are actually educated enough to go out and make it in life, the way things used to be, as opposed to what we are seeing today.

 

[editec]

Just a thought. Should the states make their schools have a mandatory gun safety class to graduate? The class could be, say, part of the first semester of senior year, on Monday afternoons, for 2 hours. Whats that, about 20 total days, for 2 hours?

They dont have to use live guns. Glock makes "sim guns", where are 100% functioning Glocks, but with "simmunition", which is a chalk like 9mm bullet that fires and looks just like a real bullet. Cops use these to train all the time. Students could learn to use guns with these sim bullets, which are not deadly at all, and learn basic safety.

With as many guns as are out there, why not? We offer driver's ed. We offer education in almost any topic.....except weapon safety. Could maybe prevent a few tragedies.

I see no reason that couldn't be an elective course.

Why don't you run the idea past your local school district?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Should there be a mandatory "Gun Safety" class in high schools?

With as many guns as are out there, why not? We offer driver's ed. We offer education in almost any topic.....except weapon safety. Could maybe prevent a few tragedies.

They still OFFER Driver's Ed in your school-district??!!!

Coupling the funding of "Gun Safety"....with the DE-funding of art, music, Driver's Ed AND Phys Ed....would seem the ideal path towards increasing our population o' lard-asses....sitting in-front-of the tube....raging about "those people".

Sorry. I don't see the benefits.​