{"id":77529,"date":"2017-08-07T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=77529"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:34:34","slug":"gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77530\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sondy-pope.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill\" title=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77530\" title=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sondy-pope-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sondy-pope-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sondy-pope-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sondy-pope.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wisconsin Rep. Sondy Pope. (<em>Photo: Joseph W. Jackson III\/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Wisconsin Legislature last week held the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiseye.org\/Video-Archive\/Event-Detail\/evhdid\/11726\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill\" title=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\">public hearing<\/a> for a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2017\/proposals\/ab427\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill\" title=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\">new bill<\/a> that calls for the development of a gun safety course for public schools. The course would focus primarily on gun safety but would also cover the \u201chistory, science, and mathematics of firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith so many [Wisconsin] students participating in [shooting sports], it is important to offer students an opportunity to better understand the safety and responsibilities that firearms require,\u201d said Rep. Ken Swowronski in a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/misc\/lc\/hearing_testimony_and_materials\/2017\/ab427\/ab0427_2017_08_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill\" title=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\">written statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Swowronski emphasized that the proposed legislation does not require schools to include the new course in its selection of electives. The bill merely calls for the development of a course that individual school districts can choose to use or not.<\/p>\n<p>The bill specifically prohibits the presence of live ammunition in the classroom and says nothing about whether or not functional firearms need to be brought into the school to use as examples.<\/p>\n<p>But the non-binding nature of the proposed policy and its emphasis on safety didn\u2019t stop anti-gunners from displaying their ignorance about firearms and pushing their conspiracy theories about the gun lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Rep. Sondy Pope, for instance, worried that a student might bring live ammunition into the gun safety course to use in one of the firearms. But even a rudimentary knowledge of firearms would have told her that by removing the firing pin most guns can be made inoperable while retaining enough functionally to be useful for education.<\/p>\n<p>Safety concerns like these can be answered without much trouble, so the bulk of the testimony against the policy took another <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/misc\/lc\/hearing_testimony_and_materials\/2017\/ab427\/ab0427_2017_08_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-safety-course-public-schools-bill\" title=\"Watch Idiot Lawmakers Oppose A Bill to Teach Gun Safety in Public Schools\">mode of attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin resident Ann Muenster said the bill is nothing more than a \u201cmarketing ploy of the gun industry to promote gun sales to a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Derek Hoesly agreed, saying \u201cThe gun lobby should have no role in deciding the high school curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Scott Marrese-Wheeler reiterated these objections, almost verbatim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[This bill] is not even really about teaching our students safety. It has nothing to do with promoting the health and well-being of our students, our neighborhoods, our community and our great state\u2026 It is simply another assault on our good senses, our schools, and our students to introduce guns into more public places. The gun manufacturers and the gun lobby simply see this as another way to make a profit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sally Drew also believed the gun lobby is behind the push to teach kids how to handle guns responsibly. \u201cThis bill is not really about teaching gun safety,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is about teaching children how to shoot, and the purpose is to grow the shooting industry by promoting this activity to children at a young age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other states have already passed similar educational programs, including Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Louisiana, North Carolina, Idaho, and Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This bill] &#8220;is simply another assault on our good senses, our schools, and our students to introduce guns into more public places&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":77530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,593,240],"tags":[132,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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