Memes aside, we had hunter’s safety classes in jr high.
Part of the class was actually hunting related, like the laws and regulations and such. The other part was firearm safety, including practical demonstration with unloaded rifles and shotguns
The teacher of the class was actually the shop teacher, and an avid hunter. He said that anyone who passed the test to his satisfaction, he’d take shooting in the woods behind the school. And he did. And he didn’t fucking play about the test either. If you missed any of the firearm safety questions, you didn’t get to even touch a rifle.
But he took the class out, loaded each rifle himself, and only the rifle or shotgun the student wanted to shoot, one student at a time, and let us actually shoot. It was awesome, even for those of us that had already learned to shoot and/or hunted. Which was damn near everyone lol.
But this was during school hours. He didn’t get permission or anything. Just went up to the office the day of, and notified the principal he was taking us out. Which, the principal just shrugged and said that’s was fine as long as we were done in time for the next class.
This was in the eighties lol. Times have changed.
Back then, most of the teachers would have hunting firearms in their vehicle depending on the season. By high school, most of the students did too. Nobody ever got shot either.
You won’t see me disagree with that. It goes a long way to reducing handling errors that lead to injury and death for sure. And I know that none of us kids that had been around guns and seen/heard them used would have just screwed around with one. You see a round turn a watermelon into juice, you know that it isn’t a toy. Even the wallop of sound from one is enough to teach respect for what they can do.
Won’t prevent idiots from being idiots, but even there, you’ll get different kinds of stupidity at least.
Memes aside, we had hunter’s safety classes in jr high.
Part of the class was actually hunting related, like the laws and regulations and such. The other part was firearm safety, including practical demonstration with unloaded rifles and shotguns
The teacher of the class was actually the shop teacher, and an avid hunter. He said that anyone who passed the test to his satisfaction, he’d take shooting in the woods behind the school. And he did. And he didn’t fucking play about the test either. If you missed any of the firearm safety questions, you didn’t get to even touch a rifle.
But he took the class out, loaded each rifle himself, and only the rifle or shotgun the student wanted to shoot, one student at a time, and let us actually shoot. It was awesome, even for those of us that had already learned to shoot and/or hunted. Which was damn near everyone lol.
But this was during school hours. He didn’t get permission or anything. Just went up to the office the day of, and notified the principal he was taking us out. Which, the principal just shrugged and said that’s was fine as long as we were done in time for the next class.
This was in the eighties lol. Times have changed.
Back then, most of the teachers would have hunting firearms in their vehicle depending on the season. By high school, most of the students did too. Nobody ever got shot either.
Honestly we need more gun education
You won’t see me disagree with that. It goes a long way to reducing handling errors that lead to injury and death for sure. And I know that none of us kids that had been around guns and seen/heard them used would have just screwed around with one. You see a round turn a watermelon into juice, you know that it isn’t a toy. Even the wallop of sound from one is enough to teach respect for what they can do.
Won’t prevent idiots from being idiots, but even there, you’ll get different kinds of stupidity at least.