NRA pundit wants to make gun use mandatory for kids

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NRA pundit wants to make gun use mandatory for kids

The National Rifle Association wants schoolchildren to learn their “three R’s”: reading, writing, and rifle-shooting.

In a new video titled “Everyone Gets a Gun,” NRA commentator Billy Johnson makes the case that everyone — children included — should be required to handle firearms. “What if, instead of gun-free zones, we had gun-required zones?” Johnson asks. “Gun policy driven by our need for guns would insist that we introduce young people to guns early.”

Under this system, children would study gun use in school — “just like we teach them reading and writing, necessary skills,” Johnson says. “It wouldn’t matter if they didn’t want to learn. We would make it necessary to advance to the next grade.”

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According to Johnson, however, guns should not only be available to everyone, but be subsidized by the government. “Perhaps we would have government ranges, where you can shoot for free,” he says, “or a yearly allotment of free ammunition.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nra-pundit-wants-make-gun-use-mandatory-students?google_editors_picks=true

No problem with 'big government' subsidizing guns, huh?

[randys1]

1. TOLD YOU SO, I god damn told you that you can choose one of two futures re guns

a. mature adults no longer have them, they dont need them, they dont shoot anybody

b. immature jackasses have 100 guns each, carry them at all times, accidentally shoot others on a daily basis, including children like in idiocracy

some of you said there was a vialbe 3rd alternative, there isnt...trust me

[AlinPA]

4. "accidentally shoot others..." ? Nope. Kids would be taught to settle their differences with guns,

not through "sissy' negotiations. "Man up! Use your 2nd amendment solution!"

[randys1]

5. That too...pretty soon a 6yr old can shoot and kill another 6 yr old for swinging on his swing

[joeybee12]

2. Hell, just use Yellowstone and other national parks to shoot for free...

No need to build anything...all those dead-beat wildlife sitting around serving no puprose.

[Politicalboi]

3. We need to abolish the NRA

[randys1]

6. + one gajillion

[GeorgeGist]

7. and the 2nd Amendment.

[HockeyMom]

8. Can parents opt out?

Hell, can ADULTS Opt out of this program? I didn't want my now grown children to learn how to use guns in schools, and I sure as hell don't want to myself as an Adult and a Senior. Go away, NRA, from the wife of one of your members. TAKE THAT ONE, NRA.

BTW, there are a lot of gunners right here on DU who think that every child and adult need to know "gun safety".

[smirkymonkey]

9. I'm sorry, but this is just beyond F'ed up.

In fact, I think it's probably one of the most insane propositions I have ever heard in my life.

Some of us manage to get through life quite nicely without EVER having touched a gun in our lives.