I can't tell you how pissed this article makes me
If your child came across a gun, what do you think they would do with it? Tell an adult? Pick it up? Pull the trigger? We wanted to try something. With a Northside ISD police officer’s help, we put a group of children in a room with a real, unloaded gun to see what they would do when they thought no one was watching. We want to emphasize: News 4 and a police officer took every precaution to make sure these children were never in danger.
If your child came across a gun, what do you think they would do with it? Tell an adult? Pick it up? Pull the trigger?
We wanted to try something. With a Northside ISD police officer’s help, we put a group of children in a room with a real, unloaded gun to see what they would do when they thought no one was watching.
We want to emphasize: News 4 and a police officer took every precaution to make sure these children were never in danger.
No, let me emphasize something for you, you pathetic excuse for a pile of shit - YOU DON'T FUCKING PUT A GUN WHERE KIDS CAN PLAY WITH IT!!!!! This station put children's lives at risk to 'prove a point'. The point is that due to the media's incessant whining about how dangerous guns are and the Brady Campaign's push to prevent children from receiving the type of education that can save their lives, parents that fear an inanimate object fail to teach their children what to do in this situation.
Had my daughter been there, I know what she would have done. And if you love your children, even if you hate guns, you will do the same thing - teach them that if they ever find a gun to leave the room, find an adult, and most importantly do not touch it!
The Eddie Eagle program teaches this and these children had been through the class a week before. However the Eddie Eagle is only part of the solution. Without parents to reinforce the ideas, it's not effective. Parents need to understand what is taught in that class and carry it over to the home as well.
Of course, the article only talks about the children who didn't act appropriately. I'd bet that a class that had NOT been through the Eddie Eagle program would have had a much higher percent of children handling the gun. I'm not stupid enough to try it like these sphincter-ferrets so I'll never know.
Hat tip Uncle, even though he got me all pissed off...