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VMI77 wrote:

J.R.@A&M wrote:

MeMelYup wrote:I have not heard any of the anti's calling for gun safety classes in the schools. I wonder why? That would be the best way to promote safety and reduce accidents. Education is the answer. Why don't the anti's push for gun safety classes in the schools?

Because while band saws and acetylene torches are also potentially dangerous, they are morally neutral tools, whose safe use can thus be taught in shop class :(]

I disagree. You're approaching the question from the standpoint of logic and reason....the antis only approach the question from emotion. The reason they won't teach gun safety in school that it would normalize the use and possession of guns. Their plan to eliminate guns requires demonization and stigmatization.

Then I failed... because I was attempting to approach that last question from the standpoint of satire and humor.

MeMelYup wrote:I have not heard any of the anti's calling for gun safety classes in the schools. I wonder why? That would be the best way to promote safety and reduce accidents. Education is the answer. Why don't the anti's push for gun safety classes in the schools?

Because while band saws and acetylene torches are also potentially dangerous, they are morally neutral tools, whose safe use can thus be taught in shop class :(]

I found this interesting if only because it describes the realistically complicated nature of gun policy. Sounds to me like the author has no philosophical problem with more gun control, but he acknowledges a lot of things that your average gun control advocate would deny (like the individual right of the Second Amendment, the impracticality of eliminating guns in America, and the innate right to self defense).

http://theweek.com/article/index/263059 ... heres-why#