Quote:Rajvik wrote:The NRA has various safety and training programs, including one meant for use in schools with very small children that focuses on teaching them to leave the area and tell and adult if they find a gun. Unfortunately, the victim disarmament crowd actively opposes safety programs because their efforts to drum up public support are completely dependent on ignorance and fear, and benefit from accidental shootings.
Rob, local and regional accidental shootings are rediculously low. The accepted explanation being that we are taught safe gun handling from an extremely early age. Those of us that worry over such things think that gun safety and handling should be taught in school, thought we dont agree at what age. The idea being that you take away the mistique of the gun at that early age and drill in safe handling practices that the accidental shooting rates will drop even more.
I actually did learn gun safety and handling in school, in the mid-80s. This was before the current system of official bigotry became prevalent in US schools--today I would probably have been arrested for reading "Guns and Ammo" during lunch.
As a side note, many shooters use the term "negligent discharge" rather than "accidental shooting," because it's nearly impossible for any gun made since the late 19th century to go off without the operator doing something negligent.