The NRA has an interest in reducing the number of unintentional shootings involving children, if for no other reason than it just makes it that much easier to oppose gun control legislation. There’s more to it than that, of course, including the fact that it’s just a good thing to keep kids safe.
So, the NRA created the Eddie Eagle program to try to prevent those shootings.
However, because it’s the NRA, the usual suspects automatically think it’s something dark and evil, mostly because if it were them, they’d do something dark and evil, most likely.
It keeps a lot of schools from using it, even though it’s effective.
One school in Michigan, however, didn’t seem to have too many qualms.
Students in Monroe County will learn gun accident prevention through a safety program coming to the county’s schools.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said the program makes “no value judgments about firearms,” and said no firearms are ever used in the program. The agency described the program as one similar to discussing “stranger danger, Internet safety, fire drills and more,” adding that firearms are found in approximately half of all American households.
And honestly, the program shouldn’t have value judgments about firearms. That’s not the place for it.
Granted, if this were something from Everytown or Giffords, it would have such a judgment, but those twerps can’t help themselves.
But when it comes to child safety, that’s neither the time nor the place for that kind of thing. Kids don’t need to be told that guns are either good or bad. Honestly, that’s because they’re neither since they have no volition of their own and have served hero and villain alike, but beyond that, it’s irrelevant to whether they act safely around them.
The idea of demonizing guns to such a degree that no one talks to children about them likely plays a large role in why unintentional shootings happen. Kids see them on television and in the movies. They see the good guys taking out bad guys with them, and when they see one lying in the bushes, if they don’t know anything else about them, they’re going to get curious and start screwing around with something they don’t understand.
In urban communities, this is worse, both because they’re more likely to encounter a gun in such a situation, but also because they’re unlikely to have grown up around firearms, where at least something of gun safety might have rubbed off along the way.
Of course, guns can be encountered in a lot of other places, and that’s why this program is good for pretty much anywhere.
I’m glad this sheriff is using the program. It’s effective, non-judgmental, and will hopefully reach these kids in a way that will keep them safe.
The demonization of the NRA, unfortunately, keeps a lot of people from considering the Eddie Eagle program. They just can’t handle the idea that maybe the group isn’t as pure evil as they want to believe in their fever dreams. They’d rather believe the NRA either wants to indoctrinate everyone into being a gun owner at an early age or just won’t cover the material necessary out of some fear people might grow up not wanting guns.
Because that’s precisely how they’d build such a program.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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