Assuming well monitored by adults letting kids shoot isn’t that big of a deal.
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Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 5 months agoThe 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.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Source for preschoolers in “the heroes program”?
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 5 months 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 5 months 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.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Re read, and stop setting up straw men. I criticized teaching seven year olds to shoot. Not teaching actual gun safety.
I said it’s sad that we have to have the “heroes program” to teach pre schoolers about active shool shooters, because gun nuts don’t allow real gun controls or solutions.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ok but it’s still a pretty obviously good idea. Will definitely save lives. Children’s lives.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 5 months 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 5 months ago
That IS gun safety education.
Also the first rule of gun safety: a gun is ALWAYS LOADED
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Stop for one second, re read the conversation, and the link. I’m criticizing teaching 7 year old kids to shoot, not criticizing teaching actual gun safety. That was a straw man you set up to knock down.