Newsmax Host Suggests School Shootings Due to Unarmed Kids

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6. It's a common argument made

Basically, if we taught gun safety from an early age, kids would be more respectful of the power of guns, and less likely to use them irresponsibility. The reference to guns being brought to school in generations past is when kids would bring their guns for ROTC classes or hunting guns because they'd be hitting the woods right after school got out. This was still a thing when my dad was in high school in the 70's. A 17-yr old with a gun rack in his truck in the school parking lot wasn't uncommon.

That's how I was raised, to respect firearms as a powerful tool, NOT a toy, and that's how I'm teaching my daughter when we shoot together. I think there's something to it.

Of course, the argument goes out the window when the parents are themselves completely irresponsible with their own firearms, leave them lying around loaded, and and treat them like toys. You've got absolute imbeciles with arsenals, raising kids to do the same.