Cute gun story

[August West]

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/24879024/detail.html

[mudslinger]

Yes that is real cute, I am sure his parents were liberals out on the town drinking and getting doped up.

[sweetwater5s9]

A Gun Safety Course for Kids

A Message to Parents

Chapter 1- A Brief History of the Gun

Chapter 2- Gun Handling in the Movies and Cartoons

Chapter 3- What if You Find a Gun Somewhere?

Chapter 4- What if Your Friend Gets His Parent’s Gun?

Chapter 5- The Three Rules of Safe Gun Handling

Chapter 6- More Gun Safety Rules

Chapter 7- Shooting at the Gun Club or Shooting Range

Chapter 8- Accidental Deaths with Guns

Chapter 9- Real Guns or Toy Guns

Chapter 10- Ammunition Knowledge and Safety

Chapter 11- Supervised Gun Handling Only

Chapter 12- Common Questions and Answers

Final Words

Disclaimer

More Information

A Gun Safety Course for Kids (.pdf)

[August West]

A bit too late for the safety tips.

[sweetwater5s9]

http://www.mychildsafety.net/index.html

Here we will talk about some steps that you as a parent can take to ensure that your home is as safe as possible if you choose to keep a firearm in the house.


Experts at the National Rifle Association caution parents to not only speak to their children about guns and gun safety, but to make the inherent assumption that if a child sees a gun, their instinct is to pick it up, and pull the trigger.

The media does not help us in this matter, making action and adventure look fun, nor do today’s toymakers with a bevy of play weapons on the market.

Parents are urged not to purchase a firearm or a gun at all if they are not willing to take on the standard responsibilities of child gun safety.


Talking to your children

You may be wondering what is the appropriate way to talk to your children about child gun safety. How you talk to your children about gun safety will depend on their age and what they can or can not relate to or understand. Here are some tips:

Very Young Children: The younger your children are, the more important it is to teach them that what they see on TV or in the movies is not real and that real guns can really hurt people, even themselves.

Young children need to be taught never to touch guns under any circumstance.
This message needs to be repeated periodically in order to keep kids from forgetting.
A simple 4-step rule as proposed by the Eddie Eagle Gun Safe program teaches children from pre-kindergarten through Grade 4 important gun safety steps. These include, “If You See A Gun:”

• STOP!
• DON’T TOUCH!
• LEAVE!
• TELL AN ADULT!

This system is easy to remember for children of this age group.


Pre-teens: Pre-teens are at the perfect age to start learning and being taught that guns and violence do not solve problems, and in fact, can create even more.
This age group needs to learn that there are serious consequences when it comes to handling guns poorly. They need to be emphasized that they should never touch guns unless they have permission to do so.

Teens: Teens are actually the most difficult group to talk to about gun safety, as they are generally more rebellious and independent.

Maintain a steady dialogue with your teen and see if you can spot any possible problems.


Of course no one can protect their children from everything or foresee all the possible dangers they may face, but with a little child safety planning and a lot of love we can protect them from a lot. After all, isn’t that a parents’ job? [/list]

[doodle-mcvee]

[sweetwater5s9]

Many parents should be licensed before having children but you do have a right to be stupid.  If parents cannot accept individual responsibility for their offspring as well as themselves they are bound to corrupt the gene pool.

[doodle-mcvee]

[sweetwater5s9]

http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/safety5.htm
 
http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/safety6.htm
 
http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/safety7.htm
 
http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/end.htm
 
 
 
 

[SIZE=-1]| K-5th Home | Back | Working Dogs | Games |[/SIZE]

<!--start google analytics tag -->_uacct = "UA-1603990-1";urchinTracker();<!--end google analytics tag--><!--start survey tag--><!--end survey tag-->[/table]

[sweetwater5s9]

On this Web site, children can learn the basics of safe gun handling, as well as take a look at questions that have been submitted by children from all over the world. 
The best little gun safety page for kids on the 'Net.
Bookmarked subjects for kids:
 
*What Are Airsoft Guns?
 Thanks for visiting with me!
 *NRA Junior Membership
 *Kid's Questions
 
   
What If You Find A Gun?
 Real Gun Or Toy Gun?
 Is The Gun Loaded?
 Are Bullets Dangerous?
 
   
Kid's Test
 Gun Safety Pact
 School Violence
 At The Shooting Range
 
   
Safe Gun Handling
 A Little History
 The Second Amendment
 A Little More History
 
 

On the rest of this "For Kids Only" page,  "Kids Questions", "Kids Test" "Safety Pact" and great "Safety Rules" page, you can learn how to be safe around guns.

You really don't want your parents and grandparents to have to go through the terrible shock of losing you to an accident with a gun.  Read on, boys and girls, read on.

If you have any questions, please feel free to use my "Kids Questions" page and I will reply to your question if I can.

For adult questions, go here.

 

[August West]

A child is safer in a gun free home. You know that I`m sure.

[sweetwater5s9]

 If members of the house are responsible and educated gun-owners, then having a gun in the house will make it a safer place. A gun is significantly more likely to be used in defense of your home and family than be used in an irresponsible manner. Motor vehicle accidents, drowning, suffocation, and fires each kill more children under the age of fifteen than do firearms. If you think it is safe to have a bathtub in your house, then it is also safe to have a gun there.
 
When including the upper ranges of the teenage bracket, gun deaths jump. This is due in large part to gang related violence. Also, it includes the majority of the people who constitute the very dangerous and often lethal drug trade.
 
Guns are used defensively about 1.5 million times per year including saving the lives of children.   No matter which side you err on, that is a lot of defensive gun uses, definitely more than are hurt in gun violence in any year. In light of those statistics, the question changes into: Is it safe NOT to have a gun in your house?
 
 
 
"Boys who own legal firearms have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use and are even slightly less delinquent than nonowners of guns."

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, NCJ-143454