The Utah State House has voted overwhelmingly (59-10) to support a bill requiring children to learn about gun safety as early as kindergarten. The Republican-controlled chamber is now sending the measure to the state Senate, despite concerns from anti-Second Amendment groups that say education on the deep-seated American liberty is somehow an unnecessary burden on young children. No, I’m not kidding. They really say that.
The bill passed on Valentine’s Day, proposing mandatory instruction for elementary-age public school students on responding safely when encountering a firearm. The directive would also use age-appropriate videos and a live instructor to demonstrate best gun-handling practices, including safe gun storage, teaching youngsters to prevent avoidable accidents. Instruction would occur on a minimum of three occasions between kindergarten and sixth grade, lessons worth imparting on children, but not a schedule any reasonable person should label intrusive or burdensome.
Republican Representative Rex Shipp, of Cedar City, Utah, sponsored the bill and says he intends to use education to prevent tragedies involving young children, starting with teaching the youngest students to avoid touching an unattended firearm and to alert an adult immediately.
“A lot of times when they don’t have any firearms in their homes or don’t do any hunting and shooting, then these kids are not taught what to do when they come in contact with a firearm,” according to Shipp.
While Utah currently has a statute on the books that allows firearm safety education in schools, teachers, for the most part, have not been integrating those lessons into their curriculum. The new bill will make the instruction mandatory but also contains a provision for those parents who do not want their children to know what to do in these situations to opt their kids out of the learning, leaving those of us more concerned with safety than political posturing to choose more wisely who to let our children hang out with.
If the bill passes the equally Republican-dominated Senate and is signed into law, mandatory firearm safety education would begin in the next school year, similar to Tennessee, which requires annual training in its public schools without ammunition or live firearms but leaves the grade level decision to education officials.
Meanwhile, anti-Second Amendment activists attempt to clamor for credibility by applauding Utah Republicans for pushing gun safety while voting and lobbying against the measure. I wish I made this up, but these people are that morally corrupt. One foolish take comes from Barbara Gentry of the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, seemingly unconcerned with preventing the same accidents I’ll bet she’s used to promote anti-Second Amendment rhetoric on more than one occasion.
“Guns and gun safety are the responsibility of the adult gun owner, not school children… We support schools sending home materials to parents outlining the importance of safe storage in keeping our families and schools safe from gun violence,” Gentry said in what I’d like to bestow my logical fallacy of the day award.
Gentry was joined by Jaden Christensen, who volunteers for the Utah chapter of Moms Demand Action, another easily-led automaton who apparently read the memo and decided to parrot the sentiment without concern for whether it was relevant or made sense in the context of the discussion.
“The burden should always be on adults,” said Christensen.
I’ve always said that the agenda is important for these types, not the children. They will stand upon a mountain of tragedy with their hypocrisy and deflection if it means the destruction of our rights and American values. Thankfully, there are those of us who live in the real world, where we understand the lessons of the Founders and the reality of self-preservation while embracing safety and education.
Scientific research shows safety instruction works 90% of the time
Which means adults have to be responsible the other 100% of the time
… most teachers I’ve ever met WERE adults.
Just sayin’
Only by age, not by maturity level
True that, but at least there’s a chance that Kindergarten teachers are at least sufficiently more mature than their charges to teach fun da mentals. Upper grades, less likely.
We can hope.
Whisperer,
“. . . there’s a chance that Kindergarten teachers are at least sufficiently more mature than their charges . . . ”
I wouldn’t much like to bet my life on that chance. Go watch a few ‘teacher’ videos from “LibsOfTikTok” then make that assertion with a straight face.
Go to a school board meeting and you begin to wonder if public education is worth the investment (more so for here in NY than other regions).
“despite concerns from anti-Second Amendment groups that say education on the deep-seated American liberty is somehow an unnecessary burden on young children.”
Gee whiz, where were they when the education system wanted to really mess young children up with mandating hard core porn and gender identity to burden young children with that?
I support firearms safety training, as a part of general safety training thatwould cover farm and household hazards, poisons, etc.
But I would really be interested in learning more about “mandating hard core porn“ in Utah schools, would you be kind enough to provide an example?
Every time you show up with this phony ass attitude you just make it all the more plain that voting Trump was the right choice. With your continued help 26 and 28 are going to be sweet.
When uneducated dolts like you oppose our cause we know it is right.
“Uneducated dolts”
He’s in it for the Soros USAID cash. Come on, NOBODY advertises such foolishness as he has UNLESS they’re on the take.
Willfully stupid, as miner is, does indicate that he’s here for the money.
jwm (and Osprey),
As one of my professors once said to me (over coffee in the student lounge, after our class), when we were discussing a classmate who had stepped on his d*ck in class (when the excuse was offered that he “had an inferiority complex”), “No, no, with him, it’s the real thing.”
It is entirely possible for MajorLiar (and many (most??) other Leftist/fascists) to be, simultaneously, dishonest and liars AND phony grifters on the take AND stupid ‘true believers’.
Embrace the healing power of “and”.
minor49iq…hardcoreporn is so rampant you have to verify you’re over 18 to enter a site…so I’ve been told and you probably already knew.
Except he asked for evidence of hardcore porn being mandated in Utah public schools. Not an unreasonable ask.
@Missy12 It’s an unreasonable ask because everyone has heard about these things for years. If you are unaware of this, then it’s reasonable to ask what else you’re completely unaware of. You must be a low information voter.
Ok samefag
Pretty sure that Mynr’s other handle is actually the name of a site that he frequents.
Oh look, speaking of the devil. ³,²,¹…
(actually commenting between Debbie and Missy12. This site certainly butchers strings into jibberish)
Here’s your example:
My original post attempts contained so much triggering language that it wouldn’t even go to moderation. It simply wouldn’t allow the comment to post at all. Go check out the explicit images in this book for yourself. I can’t describe them here (I tried). In addition to the images, the book promotes confusion, alternative lifestyles, and body mutilation FOR CHILDREN! You must love that sort of thing.
Utah’s largest school district has removed 52 books from its library for alleged inappropriate content and plans to investigate another 32, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Books that have been removed include “G-e-n-d-e-r Q-u-e-e-r,” a memoir…
You’re wrong again Miner, as usual. Now what?
He doesn’t get paid to be right, or to prove his case.
He gets paid only to post.
Search for NY school district curriculum. Typically don’t get too graphic till 2nd grade but the concepts and vocabulary are taught younger varying by district. Part of the reason groomers became a thing over the last few years especially when public school teachers make up the majority of diddlers both by number and per capita.
Maryland’s wealthiest school district has unveiled a new LGBTQ-inclusive book list for elementary schools that teaches words like “intersex” and “d-r-a-g queen” to children as young as 4.
Pre-K teachers are also provided a resource guide about “defining LGBTQ+ words for elementary students” by the Human Rights Campaign, which includes vocabulary like “cisgender,” “gender binary,” “transgender,” “pansexual” and “queer.”
Students in kindergarten, ages 5 and 6, are advised to read the 2021 book, “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” which is about a wedding between two men.
“Students will recognize that people’s multiple identities interact and create unique and complex individuals,” the MCPS guide states.
Miner doesn’t understand how child consent works. Simply put, children can NOT consent because they aren’t mature enough to. They are open to grooming by their educators and librarians who push this ideology. It is clear that there has been an operation underway to promote this ideology in schools. The National Education Association (teachers union) recommended that teachers read “Gender Queer.”
At the same time that Miner thinks young children can consent to this indoctrination (grooming), he wants the age to buy rifles moved up. Miner is a left wing follower. He’s for whatever they’re for.
Happy my Maryland granddaughters are home schooled!!!🙄
Why Progressives want to lower the voting age. As a pretext to lower or even eliminate the age of consent.
“But I would really be interested in learning more about “mandating hard core porn“ Of course you would you asshole.
They rant about common sense gun laws and they are against this one.
Way to go, Utah. Now give homeowners who a) maintain a capacity for selfdefense, and b) whose homes have a good safety record a BREAK ON THEIR PROPERTY TAXES.
My wife and I had thought to retire and move from CA to Utah. Love the state. Have some family there.
But as I get older the thought of shoveling snow again is less and less appealing. CA weather has spoiled me.
It snows in much of Kalifornistan, same as all of here in Minneslovakia. The snow I can handle, it’s the incessant year-round chore of shoveling Lib-bullshit that I find distastefully offensive.
add gun training at drivers ed age. something something guns are like cars.
I think the safety training should start at 1st grade. At about 4-5th grade they should move up to safety training and hands on marksmanship training with air guns. Freshman year should be rimfires.
When they turn 18 or graduate from school the .gov should issue them a service rifle. They are the militia, after all.
I like this idea a lot, and with all of the huge fraud and abuse DOGE is finding, it shouldn’t be long before the .gov can afford a service rifle AND a service pistol!
Don’t hold your beak.
“But as I get older the thought of shoveling snow again is less and less appealing.”
So buy a snowblower with the money you save by leaving the “liberated” state. Or that blowtorch.
I will say it because nobody else will. The more religious states are the ones who are upholding the Bill of Rights. And no they are not perfect. The a.t. hei.sts. in charge of colorado Oregon california etc., the Bill of Rights is dying in those states.
The USSR is being recreated in states like California.
That doesn’t mean they are co.m.mu.nis.ts. There are plenty of people who think and act like Russian co-mm-uni-st-s. But they don’t call themselves a c-o.m.m.uni.st.
The people behind the curtain all know. They can’t call themselves co.m,mu:nis”ts and get very far.
And part of a c0m-m.un!st take over in America is to require the misspelling of words.
I dont think Communist or Atheist are required to reconfigured. Are they? Guess this post will find out the answer to this question.
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I wonder why it was so important for the at-hei”sts to have the government close the churches??? And yet let BLM and pride parades to continue with thousands of attendees.
A co.m.mun.is.t membership card was not required.
It’s just a DARE program to have the children snitching out their parents.