Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Weekly bias check
I understand that Sen. Chuck Schumer in NY and Sen. Diane Feinstein in CA are pushing to make this a national educational initiative. Oops! Sorry, April Fools Day was last week...
Granted that TV News websites tend to be mercifully brief, I noticed that they didn't even try to find a dissenting quote from any anti-gunners. A bill such as this is important because while it IS happening in Arizona, a state that does tend to recognize our founding heritages, it also signals a throw-back to the middle of the last century when such courses in gun safety and ownership were rather the norm in most schools across the country.
While it is to be desired that gun-owning parents would take the lead in safe firearm handling instruction for their children, reinforcing that in the schools is a wise and prudent course (no pun intended). In addition, teaching the history of guns as helping to "preserve peace and freedom" is an admirable clause that might help counter-act the image of being simply a tool of mayhem propogated by Hollywood and TV.
Since the course is "elective" it will be interesting to see how many Board-of-Eds actually implement it.
There is much more good stuff from Jeff.....go read. Now.
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