Should gun safety be taught in schools like sex ed is?

Yes.

The average child will watch 8,000 murders on TV before finishing elementary school. By age eighteen, the average American has seen 200,000 acts of violence on TV, including 40,000 murders. Television statistics.

Its not like there innocent and don't know what guns are yet. Every "action" TV show or movie constant gunfire.

 

I just want to answer the OP.

I think it should be taught by police.

 

Note: Video Games promote gun violence

 

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Gun Safety should be taught in schools. While the number of firearms in circulation has risen significantly the last 30 years, the number of gun owners has followed suit. And with the loosening of concealed carry laws in many states, children are much more likely to come in contact with a gun. I’d say Kindergarten thru High School should have some kind of curriculum.

 

There are specific institutions created just for the purpose of teaching gun safety. These places specialize in this and should be used for the purpose they were meant.

Trying to get a teacher at a public school, who probably has never fired a weapon, to try and teach children a comprehensive skill like gun safety, gun cleaning and gun etiquette, when they already have 30 student and are in volved in mat, or english or other subjects, is just recipe for disaster.

Leave Math to the Math Teachers, and leave Gun Safety to the Gun Safety Experts.
511 Tactical has stores and ranges, nationwide, and offers comprehensive course in use & carry of firearms..

 

I think so depending on how it's implemented. Arizona had such a bill but I haven't heard much of its progress recently.
Arizona House advances bill mandating public schools offer firearms safety training (azpbs.org)

 

It’s time for this nation to disarm…..period. Specific uses like hunting should have prerequisite training. Guns sold for other special uses should have required training paid for by the gun manufacturers. The other 90% of us don’t need guns or training.

 

At school of all places? I'm unconvinced.

The best route remains to simply restrict the number of people you concede to hold a gun by having said people demonstrate they can own one for mere deterrence or safety without endangering anyone, themselves included. Sure, even in that case incidents may happen, but by restricting usage you also drammatically lower the chances of such incidents happening.

 

Judging but the amount of gun violence I see, I have to assume that it's taught exactly like sex ed

 

Currently, in the USA, Fatalities due to Automobiles is running neck and neck with Gun Fatalities.
I don't hear anyone crying out to ban cars, or for more regulation on who can and can't buy cars.
FACT: A Firearm is a tool like any other. It is the User that is responsible for the end result of the use of the tool.
I've said it before, A Hammer, or Screwdriver can be just as deadly.
And for those who shout "Ranged Weapon!" we also aren't lobbying to get rid of Bows and Arrows.
Education, and enforcement of consequences for misuse. There are plenty of laws, we don't need more.

 

I would wager that the hours spent legitimately driving on highways in, say Ohio, exceed all the hours legitimately using guns in the entire country. Want to compare gun deaths now with 1970? We have a plethora of laws covering driving including licenses, insurance, and required safety features. Put the same restrictions on gun use and sales and watch the deaths plummet. The lack of restrictions on guns in America shocks the rest of the world and has nothing to do with liberty or freedom.

 

Word Salad. Alternating Current wasn't Designed to Kill People. But Edison went to great lengths to prove it was.

It isn't that the laws are outdated, it's that they aren't being enforced. There is a difference. And as to the length of time people spend in their cars? I'm sure the millions spending hours a day in their cars commuting would disagree.
I believe that Firearms DO have a place in Modern Society. And that may indeed be coming from the fact that I was a victim of violent crime involving guns, but that is the point. Making laws limiting the use of firearms by the average citizen is NOT going to stop the criminals from getting and using them. It just isn't. That has been shown over and over.

 

Really? Last I checked, Edison began by paying children to bring him stray cats and dogs and electrocuting them publicly. When that no longer had the intended effect he Electrocuted a Circus Elephant.
It was also Edison that recommended that a Westinghouse A/C Generator be used to power the electric chair instead of Direct Current.

Criminals routinely remove serial numbers from firearms. Lawful users never have a need to file off serial numbers. How is a law making it illegal to file off serial numbers anything but superfluous?

Averages collected by firms designed to spew statistics are different from actual averages. Numbers taken from Insurance Companies do not reflect reality, and Numbers collected by Law Enforcement and Public Services are better but still inaccurate. Due to Insurance rates being higher the more you drive, the "Average" person buying car insurance will fudge their total driving hours in order to get a lower rate. Also, the Average person on the road will actively try to avoid being noticed by Police and usually get off the road or move away from road crews.
I've driven the same distances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, New Orleans, and Chicago, and during the busiest times of day (Commute times) Drive times can exceed 2 or more hours for distances that can be covered in minutes in off hours.

I question the attitudes, intentions and morals of ANYONE that tells me that Education is unnecessary. Nothing in society is natural and inborn. You must be taught how to interact with society.
And of Course Firearms are "Tools" by your own admission, the fact that you do no believe it is a tool does not make it fact.
Tool is described as "a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function."
The function need not be specified. Firearms do have a function.
If you do not treat a firearm as a tool, if you do not take care of them, maintain them and learn to use them then it is your own fault when something goes wrong and someone gets hurt.

You are making my points for me here.
Every Politician who has introduced Firearm Legislation has claimed that it will "Take Guns out of the Hands of Criminal." yet never does for some weird reason. (Imagine all that)
No the laws don't stop Assaults or Batteries, but adding new laws covering the same crimes won't stop them either. Methods of Enforcement need to be streamlined and put to use.
The biggest and Strongest ALREADY believe that might makes right. If that wasn't the case, you wouldn't have young men wandering the streets attacking older people in broad daylight for clicks and likes on Instagram.
What you call "Unnecessary Accidents," can all be traced to Improper handling, or storage of the firearms or lack of knowledge and understand of how they work or how to properly handle them.
Once Again the desperate need for Education involving Firearms.

 

I do not see the reason unless there is a general pre-military education as a pert of the wider conscription system.

Otherwise I like the system that most countries in Europe have - it is not impossible to get a gun (as sometimes people Stateside seem to think), but it is tightly regulated including mandatory training, unless it is for sports or hunting purposes as those already imply training (mandatory to het a hunting licence, and competitive shooting is obvious).

Also health checks, mandatory reports by the family physician (but that requires the state free healthcare system) in case of sudden health changes that might affect safety, various requirements related to carry and storage etc, but this is about training.

 

Yes.