For millions of American school kids, b-b-b-b-bird bird bird, bird is the word. The NRA’s Eddie Eagle program continues to spread the message of honest-to-God gun safety, saving God knows how many lives in the process. EE’s latest . . .
an all-ages book so that 5th graders and up aren’t embarrassed in a “oooh, that’s for baaaabies” kinda way. Ms. Lowden tells TTAG that Eddie takes flight in some twenty-six thousand schools across the country. Even New Jersey! Yes, but . . .
According to infoplease.com, there were 98,817 public schools operating in the 2009 – 2010 school year. So Eddie isn’t in over 72k schools. Put another way, the NRA’s safety program only reaches 26 percent of school kids, leaving 74 percent without Eddie’s gun safety training.
Gun control kills. And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.
![By Larry Keane President Joe Biden traveled to New York City for a media event to try and show America he’s doing something about rampant crime. Instead, he blamed the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners, said nothing about holding criminals to account and repeated the same tired lies about the firearm industry he keeps at the ready – lies “fact-checked” as being false each time he’s previously recited them. It makes no difference to the president. He’s not even trying anymore. To President Biden and national gun control groups the problem is always the gun and the law-abiding members of the industry. It’s never the criminal. Blaming the ‘Resistance’ President Biden was joined by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams for a “Gun Violence Strategies Partnership” meeting to talk about how to solve the crime surge, particularly those involving firearms. Instead of real solutions, the focus devolved into blaming law-abiding gun owners and again pushing a gun control agenda. “Enough is enough,” President Biden said. “Because we know we can do things about this, but for the resistance, we’re getting from some sectors of the government and the Congress and the state legislatures, and the organizational structures out there.” That “resistance” the president spoke of is the American people. Over the past two years they’ve become fed up with police defunding policies and soft-on-crime prosecutors, like Manhattan’s Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. They’ve invested in their own safety. The “resistance” is the 21 million lawful gun buyers in 2020, including more than 8.4 million first-time buyers, and the 18.5 million gun buyers in 2021, with more than 5.4 million first-timers. The ”resistance” has backstopped Congress from passing federal gun control that don’t address crime. It also stopped President Biden’s nominations of paid gun control lobbyist David Chipman to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and banking activist Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency because not even all U.S. Senate Democrats could support them. They would have turned those agencies into bludgeons to hammer the firearm industry to achieve a special interest, gun control agenda. Favorite Falsehoods The president turned his aim from lawful gun owners towards the firearm industry and repeated a lie he’s rehearsed several times before. “Imagine had we had a liabil… [sic] they’re the only industry in America that is exempted from being able to be sued by the public. Only one,” the president protested. “Why the gun manufacturers?… It’s got to end. They’ve got to be held responsible for the things they do that are irresponsible.” He repeated the claim for emphasis. “And I find that outrageous.” This is flatly false. The president knows by now, or his speechwriters do and they don’t bother with the facts. CNN, Politicfact and Washington Post have all checked President Biden on his remark, including after he said it in the White House Rose Garden. CNN cleanly rebuked it. “This is false. Gun manufacturers are not entirely exempt from being sued, nor are they only industry with some liability protections.” Politifact rated it “false.” Washington Post wasn’t kinder, saying, “Biden is wrong to claim the gun industry is totally immune.” The firearm industry has liability protections under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), bipartisan legislation enacted under former President George W. Bush. The firearm industry cannot be held liable when unaffiliated third-parties, in this case criminals, misuse a legal, lawfully sold product. It’s fundamental tort law and is similar to an individual attempting to hold Ford and Budweiser responsible for drunk driving deaths. The law was passed in direct response to lawsuits filed against the industry by control groups and municipalities like the city of New York and the state of New York. These type of lawsuit continue to be filed, now even by foreign governments represented by the same gun control group, the Brady Center. Colonial-Era Error President Biden continued to ignore facts on the Second Amendment and its history. He even erred when speaking about the Revolution-era days and why the right to keep and bear arms was so sacrosanct. “When the amendment was passed, it didn’t say anybody could own a gun and any kind of gun and any kind of weapon,” President Biden remarked. “You couldn’t buy a cannon, and when – the – when this, uh, this amendment was passed.” It did, and does, say the right of the People “shall not be infringed.” Even The Washington Post was brutal in their assignment of “Four Pinocchio’s” to this statement. “Biden has already been fact-checked on this claim — and it’s been deemed false. We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim.” In fact, the Constitution of early America – before the Bill of Rights, and Second Amendment, was even ratified – granted and encouraged “special waivers” to American merchants and sailors, “allowing private individuals to act as pirates on behalf of the United States against countries engaged in war with it.” Americans given waivers and who owned warships obviously also obtained cannons for use in battle. In fact, it is still perfectly legal to buy a cannon today. It is the presidents’ fundamental misunderstanding and blatant lying about the Second Amendment that informs his gun control agenda and misguided approach to solving the crime problem. Millions of law-abiding Americans took ownership of their Second Amendment rights to protect themselves, understanding the president won’t. Instead of mangling the meaning of the right and pushing for more gun control on law-abiding Americans, the president should keep it simple. Take on the criminals and punish them for breaking the law.](https://cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/download-26-218x150.jpeg "Mainstream Media Lies to Cover for Kamala")
Gun control kills, kinda the point.
Face it, Eddy Eagle is an OFWG. Well, maybe not fat, but he’s definitely an OWG. We let such politically incorrect thought into our schools and the next thing you know these kids will be massacring injuns and stealing land from Mexico. Gotta get with the times.
He helped my 9 year old learn with just one run through. But I am an OFWG so my opinion probably doesn’t count.
My 4 year old will sing “Stop. Don’t touch. Run away. Tell a grownup” and ask to see the video of the birds playing basketball. I make sure to give him a booster viewing and discussion before he visits the TX grandparents.
I am very surprised that 26% are allowed to hear about gun safety. Where are the progressive liberal commie Democrat protests? According to them, such lessons are not needed because it has the opposite effect. Besides, the numbers of people who have any interest in firearms is rapidly falling to a more enlightened people who would rather their children be taught about alternative lifestyles children should be exploring.
Ultimately it’s thought control (or attempts at it) that kills.
Gun control is but one symptom of the underlying problem.
We don’t need no thought control. Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone!
No pudding for you. You didn’t finish your meat.
This is total BS. If I weren’t seemingly banned from commenting here, I would tell you that Eddie Eagle IS NOT EFFECTIVE. Kids trained with that stupid program only learn to check to see if an adult is present before playing with unsecured firearms. That’s not editorializing. It’s been scientifically upheld. Dr. Lisa Monroe, one of the educators who created Eddie Eagle says that she regrets having any part in it, because it is used to supplant actual preventative measures such as actually keeping your gun away from your children.
Some would say the same about “Saying, No to drugs” or “Having Safe Sex” campaigns. Personally, they all worked for me. Eddie’s message is simple, easy to spread, and does not get political for a certain age of kids.
I wonder how many private schools and homeschooling programs are involved in this Eddie Eagle thing. I assume that most people who actually own and carry guns are involved with teaching their children this vital safety material – in some form or other, but I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of others who use alternative education are not.
The “people of the gun” should reach out to them and offer this important program. I never really thought about it, but I’ll talk to the folks at the Christian Academy here and see what they say. Finding the homeschoolers might be more of a challenge. 🙂
I wonder if it’s an issue of schools taking a stance on ‘guns are bad’ or ‘mentioning “guns” is bad’. If people are reading this and haven’t seen Eddie the eagle (Google it, ~5 minute video), it doesn’t preach guns are good or bad, but merely they exist. For kids too young (my kids are 3 and 5) to learn (hands on) gun safety it’s a helpful tool.
Next stop, doctor’s offices, Eddie.
Everyone has their own parenting styles, but I think the Eddie program is just stupid. Teaching kids that guns are a horrible dangerous threat that they need to run away from screaming makes no sense to me. I have been shooting since I was very small, as has my daughter. She has her own .22 (she’s 11 now) and I make no effort to hide any of my guns from her. She’s not an idiot, and I don’t treat her like one. As far as this program is concerned a gun may as well be a radioactive bear-snake-shark hybrid with a chainsaw.
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