Your Gun Control Laws

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(12-09-2015, 04:55 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I think oftentimes that my upbringing has colored my view in a different way for this sort of thing. In my area, during my youth, guns were an inevitable part of life. Even growing up a pacifist we owned firearms for hunting. I was born owning a rifle. So my experiences lead me to the attitude of guns are all around us, basic safety with a firearm is something everyone, regardless of their background, should be taught because there is a chance that they will need to know it. I'm not talking about putting one in their hands and teaching them these things, but rather just the basics. The practical portion, not required for school but required for ownership, would be a different story.

All of that being said, that is what I see as beneficial based upon my life experiences.

I am from an embarrassingly small town in western PA, and some folks had guns and some didn't and that really was all I thought about it. When I became an adult and started paying attention to politics I suddenly realized the fact that my family went to church and others didn't, and that some families owned guns and ours didn't were "big deals."  

There are so many more practical things we could be teaching in schools, but teaching every kid how to handle a gun might be as statistically relevant as teaching every kid how to write left-handed.