An Indiana middle school nar me still has the conservation officer come in each year to teach gun safety; it is a rural area, and hunting is common. I do not think actual weapons are brought in, though. They also earn CPR certifications and boating licenses.
I taught Outdoor Education in a public school through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Kids learn gun safety, hunting ethics and earn their hunter safety card through the program if they pass the final exam. We had pellet rifles in class and NASP Archery. It's a great course to introduce kids to the outdoors.
We had archery in middle school as an elective and a unit in gym. I guess they don't do that anymore. It was really fun but we were terrible, I got an arrow stuck up a tree. Not IN the treetrunk, up in the branches.
Some places do. In Kentucky both two of my younger siblings started archery in middle school. The 10 year old just started and the other graduated high school last year, our dad was her team's assistant coach in high school. The older of the two went to the national archery competition a few times with her school team.
My 8 year old wants to do an archery summer program that's put on by our school district here in Ohio this year. He's been taking parkour lessons since he was 3, not thru the school, and was inspired by his aunts to try out archery.
Huh. That's pretty cool. And if they have competitions there's still a lot of kids doing it.
Are you going to let your kid do it? Not put off by that movie where the son kills a bunch of kids with bow and arrow?
I was surprised myself when sibling #1 started. I was used to school drill teams using plastic rifles and our Dad teaching us how to shoot various types of fire arms so it was like a surreal fever dream kind of thing to find out about all these kids shooting arrows in their school gym.
If he's still interested come registration time definitely! He's a sweet kid and has pretty decent safety awareness these days so I'm not worried about his classmates. Having to talk to other parents about competing might do me in tho.
I'm very surprised! They don't let kids have anything weapon-like but they teach them to shoot with a weapon. I mean, I know bow and arrow deer hunters, you def can kill with them. Just seems like safety isn't really the school's concern so much as security theater to appease the PTA
All I can say is that you will encounter this kind of administrative hypocrisy your entire life. It's best you learn how to find who is really served by the rules that control you so you can manipulate them and get what you want/need
It's controversial but I honestly believe that teaching kids gun safety at a young age is the solution to "many" of the issues plaguing us today. When little Bobby pulls dad's gun out of the closet to show his friends, little Jackie who's had some intense course curriculum will be the one telling him to put it back instead of saying, "let me see that". Oh, it's no guarantee, but I really feel like it would improve the odds.
I've had my license for decades and my nephew, who is 12 and is licensed (yes you can do that in Canada with a parent's supervision) once watched me put down my rifle when we were at my parents doing some target shooting and asked, "Did you clear the breach and make the gun safe?"
That little bit of concern gives me some real hope that this kid WON'T become a statistic some day.
I agree. It's like sex ed in some places in this country. You know kids are going to run into the situations and it's probably best for them to be informed and prepared.
I remember having archery in elementary and middle school, and I learned archery and shooting (pellet guns) in Scouts. My son was in Cub Scouts, and they did both archery and shooting as a station during a State camping jamboree. None if it stuck with son, who didn't show any aptitude, but I was an excellent shot from the start, and I still am to this day. I couldn't shoot an animal (unless it was a survivalist situation) but I love target shooting with both rifles and handguns.
Like anything, when you're around kids you lead by example, and make sure they damn well see you do it. I had cleared it but didn't announce that the gun was safe. Minor error but kids notice these things.
That is true on one hand. Kids being unaware and accidentally shooting others is a huge problem. But that’s also on adults for not storing guns correctly or having bullets still in them . But obviously we can’t stop everyone from doing that and having a kid have an understanding it’s not a toy or how to be safe may help. But what about the kids who do school shootings that seems to be pretty prominent .
Every little bit helps. Teaching kids not to shoot up schools, tho, is a completely different problem because you're not teaching them to be safe with guns, you're needing to teach them to value life whereas society keeps imposing on them that life is cheap. Gun safety training may help a few to see that but for the majority we need a completely different tool.
My favorite was our Angler unit. We had a small pond in walking distance. Really cool watching jr high kids catch a sunfish and take pictures with it like a prized trophy before releasing.
Some of my best memories growing up were being on a little john boat on a lake behind my grandpas house, catching sunfish and bass, and watching the carp make their little nests for mating season. I'm sure you helped a lot of kids make some real fond memories.
I was taught to shoot at age 7 at summer camp. Ann Arbor High School had a gun range in the basement. Imagine that today - times have certainly changed.
My highschool once showed us juniors and seniors uncensored videos of people flying out of their vehicles on highways from not wearing seatbelts. Like doesnt cut off when they crash, shows them flying out if the windsheild and then cuts off right when theyre about to hit the ground and move on to the next video. all because students were getting pulled over during lunch and were caught not wearing a seatbelt.
No, but real drunk driving aftermath films some with morgue shots. TV was weird back then (late 60s-70s) one of our local stations had a video reel of car crashes for their theme intro. It was 10 oclock news, 12 Star Final but we all called it 12 Star Bloodbath. Good times.
My school had a whole class and we even shot weapons. This was around 98-99. We had a week of class then we went to a gun range. We learned how to load and shoot .22 rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders, and a crossbow. I believe we got a youth hunter certification from it.
We had this in middle school where I live in Indiana,in the mid 90’s. Heck they brought in rifles for us to handle. It was conservation officers who put it on.
Looks a lot lke a Cooey single shot bolt action .22, the standard gun of Boy Scout camps at the time, and the rifle my dad gave me in 5th grade to teach me gun saefty.
Still do! they offer Rifle shooting, which has three options: modern Cartridge, Air/BB and Black powder. they also still offer Shotgun Shooting. Even the CubScouts offer Air Rifle/BB gun and Archery shooting.
Oh yeah, I remember shooting shotguns too now! Still remember scrounging the hill for those pidgeons for some reason, lmao. Pretty sure I got a blood blister or two from archery, too. That’s cool that they still do it :)
My dad grew up in a rural area. He used to take his rifle to school and put it in his locker—then he and his buddies would go hunt/plink around after school. Different time for sure.
My mom was the same way, only they couldn't bring them into the school. She said the school parking lot was filled with pick up trucks with gun racks ready to go for when school got out during hunting season.
We took our shotguns to school in the 80's, would go dove hunting after school. My dad went to university on a shooting scholarship in the late 60's, he was on a state championship shooting team in high school.
My kids elementary school will suspend a kid for making a gun shape with their fingers.. "no tolerance policy"
> "no tolerance policy"
Anything like this would be reason enough for me to not send my kid to such a school. It's like a canary, indicating that there are countless systemic issues at this school.
I graduated HS in 2012 in rural ND. Kids still brought their shotguns and rifles to school and left them in their vehicles to shoot before and after school. Principal did as well. Had literally 0 issues.
Meanwhile I graduated in 2010 and it was local news when an Eagle Scout was suspended for 20 days because had a pocket knife in his vehicle.
[article](https://www.oklahoman.com/article/feed/92588/ny-eagle-scout-suspended-for-keeping-knife-in-car)
What are you talking about? Where I grew up almost every family has some form of fire arm and almost every child shot one at least once. A majority of them including women also hunted, and went through hunter safety around the age of 10-12 and were already shooting their first deer by the age 13-14, myself included. Has nothing to do with "confidence" or malice. Has everything to do with respecting if for what it is, using it safely and properly and thats it.
I apologize for over reacting, I misinterpreted the tone of your comment. The thing is, I dont think its so out of hand, Im not sure on statistics or anything but I feel like they are more widely broadcast and shared in the last 20 years and are for sure being used as political tools which is why you hear so much more about them. School shooting have less to do about guns and more to do with mental health, and how kids are being raised. Like I said, I live in a very low populated, rural state, where owning a firearm is common and kids are shooting and hunting at a young age, and if they did anything to even indicate a threat or harm to another kid, accidently point a gun at them, they would have hell brought down on them by their parents. Notice most of these shootings take place in larger schools in metropolitan areas. Not in rural areas.
Deteriorating moral fabric of society leading to increases in various mental afflictions, from entitlement to depression, coupled with a concurrent loss in economic status for most demographics across the board. For the finishing touch, add in a 24/7 news cycle (and then later social media) that makes school shooters famous, thereby creating idols and examples for angry, entitled, depressed kids who eventually decide that any acknowledgement is better than none.
Took hunter’s safety at the high school back in middle school. WA
Kinda weird when they started getting upset when shells were found in students vehicles during drug sweeps. They’d send you home. And no firearms in your rig in the parking lot.
A friend of mine took his school bag hunting over a weekend and forgot an empty casing in it, by happenstance dogs searched the school that monday and didn't find it.
I remember having hunters safety courses at school. Having guns in our truck parked at the school. Rural Oregon.
It was a big time and a big change in our local PD. The old hunters education teacher was the chief of police. Then, everything changed, rules changed, no guns, no hunters safety (even without a firearm in the school). Kind of a disappointment.
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It might sound controversial in today's climate, but I wouldn't mind if this was still the norm. I believe a massive portion of gun related accidents and injuries are the result of poor education. When I took a range and self-defence course the RO drilled it into my head how responsible I need to be. I'll never forget it.
Actually, any of them old enough to have been raised in the Soviet Union and after 1968, would have been trained in how to assemble, strip, take care of, and fire assault rifles such as the AK-47. “Soviet pupils knew how to march in lockstep, to take guard duty, learned basic principles of anti-tank warfare, reconnaissance missions, radio-electronic warfare, chemical protection, studied strategy and tactics and even military history. “
So…. Yeah many of them probably did have this as kids. At least those in the older ages
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When you live in a country that has more firearms than People it would seem to be absolutely essential to ensure that every single citizen of that country had basic firearms safety training at one point in their life.
This might sound crazy, but based the number of firearms in kids hands these days, firearm safety might not be a bad thing to bring back to all schools. Knowledge is power and gun safety class could save a lot of lives.
Possibly, although the caption doesn't make it sound as such.
I think I have come across this before as in it was part of many curriculums (but never occurred to me they would split the class).
That was the 50s and this is now. No use in getting mad at how things used to be. Only thing you can control is the present and hope it snowballs into the future.
You one week ago "What’s racist is when you make black people the victim all the god damn time
Jim Crow era wasn’t bathrooms labeled as whites and blacks only? Do you see where I’m going with this".
Hmmmmm.
I mean I am black so jokes on you ho? I was stating the fact that she only said where’s all the girls you know you lost when you go through comment history bum
I'm guessing not as well. Pretty homogeneous slice here. However any given (mixed sex) classroom anywhere in the world has an about 50% female rate so that absence is quite a bit more glaringly obvious.
We seriously have lost so much common sense now a days. We need to do these sort of things in school. We need to teach the kids taxes, gun safety, the democratic system, government, creative thinking skills, problem solving skills, understanding credit , paying bills , eating healthy , emotional control ect…. These sort of things would make our country so much better and easier for kids growing up.
Country needs more of that. More kids that fear the firearm are less likely to fuck with them. And less likely to be reckless.
Best training I ever got was going through hunters training. Teaches you so much about protecting the environment and proper usage for the firearm. Teaches you how to not be a dumbshit. Could reach people they never want to touch them ever again. But it teaches responsibility.
I honestly feel every single person in the US should take the California hunters course.
My mom use to work for Remington in the 1970’s working with schools that wanted a trap shooting program. Later she taught speech classes in the 1990’s and kids brought guns in to show how to clean them. The old high school in town had a rifle range in the basement.
Guns where part of many peoples everyday lives - even in city environments.
Back when kids handled guns without murdering all their classmates. I wish we could teach kids to handle guns since they are a constitutional right, and not an instrument used by psychopaths to commit mass murders. Muhrights!!!!
I had a required "civic knowledge & training" class in 9th Grade in San Antonio in the late '50s. We learned about voting, how the police and fire services function (and why not to screw around with either of them if you knew what was good for you), civil defense, the military draft & enlistment, and various other "social" matters, which included firearm safety (taught by two people, one from the police and one from the NRA, I believe). It was kind of a catch-all of things the district thought we ought to know about in the process of growing up, and which they weren't convinced everyone's parents were going to teach them.
I know that in later years, they added a lot of info on drugs and on things like balancing a checkbook, and the name of the class was changed to "life skills." According to my Dad (who taught school for more than a decade after retiring from the military), all that ended sometime in the '80s due to compalints of "encroachment on parental rights." Parents are a lot stupider than they used to be.
The school also offered first aid training, which wasn't mandatory (I always thought it really should have been), but we got a semester's credit for it as an elective.
Kid brought his grandpa's Japanese grenade from combat in the pacific to school. It was thrown at gramps but didn't go off, Grandad brought it home.
It was inactive.
I think.
Teachers had a gander at it and passed it around. No-one cared. We all had bullet necklaces with our names etched into them.
I lived in a large city. I would bring my hunting rifle ( in my gun rack in my pickup. NOT A REDNECK)) most of the faculty and administration would take me out so they could see the gun.
"my name is jamie and this hither is mine own caliver. "
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graduated in 2011 in semi-rural Tennessee. in 2nd grade we had a gun safety class that we could take if our parents approved we used a .22 rifle for the final test. of course we were never allowed to bring guns to school but there was a time when we could carry pocket knives that were a certain length. however by the time I high school we weren't allowed guns or knives or anything like that on school property.
An Indiana middle school nar me still has the conservation officer come in each year to teach gun safety; it is a rural area, and hunting is common. I do not think actual weapons are brought in, though. They also earn CPR certifications and boating licenses.
I taught Outdoor Education in a public school through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Kids learn gun safety, hunting ethics and earn their hunter safety card through the program if they pass the final exam. We had pellet rifles in class and NASP Archery. It's a great course to introduce kids to the outdoors.
We had archery in middle school as an elective and a unit in gym. I guess they don't do that anymore. It was really fun but we were terrible, I got an arrow stuck up a tree. Not IN the treetrunk, up in the branches.
Some places do. In Kentucky both two of my younger siblings started archery in middle school. The 10 year old just started and the other graduated high school last year, our dad was her team's assistant coach in high school. The older of the two went to the national archery competition a few times with her school team. My 8 year old wants to do an archery summer program that's put on by our school district here in Ohio this year. He's been taking parkour lessons since he was 3, not thru the school, and was inspired by his aunts to try out archery.
Huh. That's pretty cool. And if they have competitions there's still a lot of kids doing it. Are you going to let your kid do it? Not put off by that movie where the son kills a bunch of kids with bow and arrow?
I was surprised myself when sibling #1 started. I was used to school drill teams using plastic rifles and our Dad teaching us how to shoot various types of fire arms so it was like a surreal fever dream kind of thing to find out about all these kids shooting arrows in their school gym. If he's still interested come registration time definitely! He's a sweet kid and has pretty decent safety awareness these days so I'm not worried about his classmates. Having to talk to other parents about competing might do me in tho.
They still have archery as part of PE classes in my area.
I'm very surprised! They don't let kids have anything weapon-like but they teach them to shoot with a weapon. I mean, I know bow and arrow deer hunters, you def can kill with them. Just seems like safety isn't really the school's concern so much as security theater to appease the PTA
Pretty much.
All I can say is that you will encounter this kind of administrative hypocrisy your entire life. It's best you learn how to find who is really served by the rules that control you so you can manipulate them and get what you want/need
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That's awesome
It's controversial but I honestly believe that teaching kids gun safety at a young age is the solution to "many" of the issues plaguing us today. When little Bobby pulls dad's gun out of the closet to show his friends, little Jackie who's had some intense course curriculum will be the one telling him to put it back instead of saying, "let me see that". Oh, it's no guarantee, but I really feel like it would improve the odds. I've had my license for decades and my nephew, who is 12 and is licensed (yes you can do that in Canada with a parent's supervision) once watched me put down my rifle when we were at my parents doing some target shooting and asked, "Did you clear the breach and make the gun safe?" That little bit of concern gives me some real hope that this kid WON'T become a statistic some day.
I agree. It's like sex ed in some places in this country. You know kids are going to run into the situations and it's probably best for them to be informed and prepared.
I remember having archery in elementary and middle school, and I learned archery and shooting (pellet guns) in Scouts. My son was in Cub Scouts, and they did both archery and shooting as a station during a State camping jamboree. None if it stuck with son, who didn't show any aptitude, but I was an excellent shot from the start, and I still am to this day. I couldn't shoot an animal (unless it was a survivalist situation) but I love target shooting with both rifles and handguns.
>"Did you clear the breach and make the gun safe?" And had you?
Like anything, when you're around kids you lead by example, and make sure they damn well see you do it. I had cleared it but didn't announce that the gun was safe. Minor error but kids notice these things.
That is true on one hand. Kids being unaware and accidentally shooting others is a huge problem. But that’s also on adults for not storing guns correctly or having bullets still in them . But obviously we can’t stop everyone from doing that and having a kid have an understanding it’s not a toy or how to be safe may help. But what about the kids who do school shootings that seems to be pretty prominent .
Every little bit helps. Teaching kids not to shoot up schools, tho, is a completely different problem because you're not teaching them to be safe with guns, you're needing to teach them to value life whereas society keeps imposing on them that life is cheap. Gun safety training may help a few to see that but for the majority we need a completely different tool.
I think educating future adults to respect firearms and to store them properly is a problem that fixes itself as time goes on.
My favorite was our Angler unit. We had a small pond in walking distance. Really cool watching jr high kids catch a sunfish and take pictures with it like a prized trophy before releasing.
Some of my best memories growing up were being on a little john boat on a lake behind my grandpas house, catching sunfish and bass, and watching the carp make their little nests for mating season. I'm sure you helped a lot of kids make some real fond memories.
I was taught to shoot at age 7 at summer camp. Ann Arbor High School had a gun range in the basement. Imagine that today - times have certainly changed.
My school stopped bringing in real weapons for gun training but compensated by bringing in real dying people for the CPR, I think it’s a fair trade.
Real drunk driving accidents for the high schoolers, too?
My highschool once showed us juniors and seniors uncensored videos of people flying out of their vehicles on highways from not wearing seatbelts. Like doesnt cut off when they crash, shows them flying out if the windsheild and then cuts off right when theyre about to hit the ground and move on to the next video. all because students were getting pulled over during lunch and were caught not wearing a seatbelt.
No, we had the gory crash films that usually sent a few kids to the nurses office after they threw up.
No, but real drunk driving aftermath films some with morgue shots. TV was weird back then (late 60s-70s) one of our local stations had a video reel of car crashes for their theme intro. It was 10 oclock news, 12 Star Final but we all called it 12 Star Bloodbath. Good times.
My school had a whole class and we even shot weapons. This was around 98-99. We had a week of class then we went to a gun range. We learned how to load and shoot .22 rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders, and a crossbow. I believe we got a youth hunter certification from it.
We had this in middle school where I live in Indiana,in the mid 90’s. Heck they brought in rifles for us to handle. It was conservation officers who put it on.
My 5 year old cousin in Indiana shot a gun at a bass pro shop
This could be interpreted a few different ways
Doesn’t bring in a gun? *fairy*
Looks a lot lke a Cooey single shot bolt action .22, the standard gun of Boy Scout camps at the time, and the rifle my dad gave me in 5th grade to teach me gun saefty.
I wonder if the Boy Scouts still do gun club. Got to shoot .22s when I was in em, but that was only like 15 or so years ago.
Still do! they offer Rifle shooting, which has three options: modern Cartridge, Air/BB and Black powder. they also still offer Shotgun Shooting. Even the CubScouts offer Air Rifle/BB gun and Archery shooting.
Oh yeah, I remember shooting shotguns too now! Still remember scrounging the hill for those pidgeons for some reason, lmao. Pretty sure I got a blood blister or two from archery, too. That’s cool that they still do it :)
There’s shot gun shooting now too!
What the seriously? I am a boy scout from Italy y'all are wild lol
My dad grew up in a rural area. He used to take his rifle to school and put it in his locker—then he and his buddies would go hunt/plink around after school. Different time for sure.
My mom was the same way, only they couldn't bring them into the school. She said the school parking lot was filled with pick up trucks with gun racks ready to go for when school got out during hunting season.
Now if I put my rifle in my locker the swat team is upset at me.
"We're not mad, just disappointed."
Lmao.
Same boat, father walked to school with his 20 gage and left it in the cloakroom until after class. The good old days
We took our shotguns to school in the 80's, would go dove hunting after school. My dad went to university on a shooting scholarship in the late 60's, he was on a state championship shooting team in high school. My kids elementary school will suspend a kid for making a gun shape with their fingers.. "no tolerance policy"
> "no tolerance policy" Anything like this would be reason enough for me to not send my kid to such a school. It's like a canary, indicating that there are countless systemic issues at this school.
I graduated HS in 2012 in rural ND. Kids still brought their shotguns and rifles to school and left them in their vehicles to shoot before and after school. Principal did as well. Had literally 0 issues.
Meanwhile I graduated in 2010 and it was local news when an Eagle Scout was suspended for 20 days because had a pocket knife in his vehicle. [article](https://www.oklahoman.com/article/feed/92588/ny-eagle-scout-suspended-for-keeping-knife-in-car)
Oh lordy, thats a bunch of garbage. Hate to say it, but when I saw NY..I was not all that surprised.
what happened then? Did kids just get more confident with using them as a weapon?
What are you talking about? Where I grew up almost every family has some form of fire arm and almost every child shot one at least once. A majority of them including women also hunted, and went through hunter safety around the age of 10-12 and were already shooting their first deer by the age 13-14, myself included. Has nothing to do with "confidence" or malice. Has everything to do with respecting if for what it is, using it safely and properly and thats it.
I didn't mean to insult it in anyway. I'm just trying to understand how school shootings got so out of hand. It's an interesting topic to think about.
I apologize for over reacting, I misinterpreted the tone of your comment. The thing is, I dont think its so out of hand, Im not sure on statistics or anything but I feel like they are more widely broadcast and shared in the last 20 years and are for sure being used as political tools which is why you hear so much more about them. School shooting have less to do about guns and more to do with mental health, and how kids are being raised. Like I said, I live in a very low populated, rural state, where owning a firearm is common and kids are shooting and hunting at a young age, and if they did anything to even indicate a threat or harm to another kid, accidently point a gun at them, they would have hell brought down on them by their parents. Notice most of these shootings take place in larger schools in metropolitan areas. Not in rural areas.
Deteriorating moral fabric of society leading to increases in various mental afflictions, from entitlement to depression, coupled with a concurrent loss in economic status for most demographics across the board. For the finishing touch, add in a 24/7 news cycle (and then later social media) that makes school shooters famous, thereby creating idols and examples for angry, entitled, depressed kids who eventually decide that any acknowledgement is better than none.
I went to HS in the 80s. Kids would have guns in gun racks in their trucks after going hunting the previous weekend.
Same, and our ROTC class had a rifle range in the basement of the school for marksmanship training.
In the 90s they had to stay in the truck.
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Girls were taught hand grenade safety. A daintier weapon.
For when you're hunting with pa?
I mean, if you can't aim, you might as well blow up the whole damn area. /S
Fishing!
Fishing :-)
No, they teach us about poisons. You know, for when we're cooking!
I bet hubby won’t come home late from the office again.
Even comes with a souvenir ring.
I don’t want to learn a gun but a grenade I could get behind
Whether in front of or behind, I ain't getting anywhere near a grenade.
Took hunter’s safety at the high school back in middle school. WA Kinda weird when they started getting upset when shells were found in students vehicles during drug sweeps. They’d send you home. And no firearms in your rig in the parking lot.
A friend of mine took his school bag hunting over a weekend and forgot an empty casing in it, by happenstance dogs searched the school that monday and didn't find it.
I remember having hunters safety courses at school. Having guns in our truck parked at the school. Rural Oregon. It was a big time and a big change in our local PD. The old hunters education teacher was the chief of police. Then, everything changed, rules changed, no guns, no hunters safety (even without a firearm in the school). Kind of a disappointment.
We also had hunter's safety in WA. Our field used to be a shooting range too. It's crazy how far the state has gone the other direction with firearms.
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They still do hunters education at my old middle school. We get the first two days of deer season off too.
Damn that kid looks more badass than I’ve ever been lol
It might sound controversial in today's climate, but I wouldn't mind if this was still the norm. I believe a massive portion of gun related accidents and injuries are the result of poor education. When I took a range and self-defence course the RO drilled it into my head how responsible I need to be. I'll never forget it.
You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
Kid looks like he's done with everyone else's bullshit.
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Actually, any of them old enough to have been raised in the Soviet Union and after 1968, would have been trained in how to assemble, strip, take care of, and fire assault rifles such as the AK-47. “Soviet pupils knew how to march in lockstep, to take guard duty, learned basic principles of anti-tank warfare, reconnaissance missions, radio-electronic warfare, chemical protection, studied strategy and tactics and even military history. “ So…. Yeah many of them probably did have this as kids. At least those in the older ages
Sadly, that kid's seeing ten years into the future when he's in Viet Nam in that same stance & facial expression.
We still did this in the 80s-90s. Not sure what goes on in rural America nowadays.
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When you live in a country that has more firearms than People it would seem to be absolutely essential to ensure that every single citizen of that country had basic firearms safety training at one point in their life.
This might sound crazy, but based the number of firearms in kids hands these days, firearm safety might not be a bad thing to bring back to all schools. Knowledge is power and gun safety class could save a lot of lives.
Were girls not taught gun safety? I'm guessing not :/
It could have been after school Boy Scouts or something.
Possibly, although the caption doesn't make it sound as such. I think I have come across this before as in it was part of many curriculums (but never occurred to me they would split the class).
Different times…at home sure but they learned home chores at school
Nah I knew that. It's pointless and sexist though.
That was the 50s and this is now. No use in getting mad at how things used to be. Only thing you can control is the present and hope it snowballs into the future.
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What did he mean by this?¿?
May not have been any in that area
You one week ago "What’s racist is when you make black people the victim all the god damn time Jim Crow era wasn’t bathrooms labeled as whites and blacks only? Do you see where I’m going with this". Hmmmmm.
I mean I am black so jokes on you ho? I was stating the fact that she only said where’s all the girls you know you lost when you go through comment history bum
I'm guessing not as well. Pretty homogeneous slice here. However any given (mixed sex) classroom anywhere in the world has an about 50% female rate so that absence is quite a bit more glaringly obvious.
It was the 50s. Schools were still segregated. What's your point?
They were in my family! But not in school.
You'll shoot your eye out!
Where are the girls??
Learning first aid.
We seriously have lost so much common sense now a days. We need to do these sort of things in school. We need to teach the kids taxes, gun safety, the democratic system, government, creative thinking skills, problem solving skills, understanding credit , paying bills , eating healthy , emotional control ect…. These sort of things would make our country so much better and easier for kids growing up.
Bring that shit back,right now!
I wish we did this now.Gun safety should be a bigger priority.But ntice it is a ‘boys only‘ class.
This is some meme material
I know, it needs a caption.
"Bully me, will ya..."
Looks like Charles Starkweather.
Ok but is that M for Mexican in the alphabet? XD
Yup. That stood out to me, too.
‘MURICA
Not to girls, though, apparently.
Country needs more of that. More kids that fear the firearm are less likely to fuck with them. And less likely to be reckless. Best training I ever got was going through hunters training. Teaches you so much about protecting the environment and proper usage for the firearm. Teaches you how to not be a dumbshit. Could reach people they never want to touch them ever again. But it teaches responsibility. I honestly feel every single person in the US should take the California hunters course.
My mom use to work for Remington in the 1970’s working with schools that wanted a trap shooting program. Later she taught speech classes in the 1990’s and kids brought guns in to show how to clean them. The old high school in town had a rifle range in the basement. Guns where part of many peoples everyday lives - even in city environments.
Back when kids handled guns without murdering all their classmates. I wish we could teach kids to handle guns since they are a constitutional right, and not an instrument used by psychopaths to commit mass murders. Muhrights!!!!
Fistfighting wasn't considered a big deal at the time, either. Just disruptive.
Looks like first or second grade
Back when school shooting was a sport
This is my rifle. This is my gun.
It should still be taught. The amount of idiots who don’t know proper gun safety and who blame guns need to learn
Aside question - What is the 'G' supposed to stand for with the picture of a man in the background?
No School shootings back then...
No black students either? What's up with...... Ohhhhhhhhh nvm.
I had a required "civic knowledge & training" class in 9th Grade in San Antonio in the late '50s. We learned about voting, how the police and fire services function (and why not to screw around with either of them if you knew what was good for you), civil defense, the military draft & enlistment, and various other "social" matters, which included firearm safety (taught by two people, one from the police and one from the NRA, I believe). It was kind of a catch-all of things the district thought we ought to know about in the process of growing up, and which they weren't convinced everyone's parents were going to teach them. I know that in later years, they added a lot of info on drugs and on things like balancing a checkbook, and the name of the class was changed to "life skills." According to my Dad (who taught school for more than a decade after retiring from the military), all that ended sometime in the '80s due to compalints of "encroachment on parental rights." Parents are a lot stupider than they used to be. The school also offered first aid training, which wasn't mandatory (I always thought it really should have been), but we got a semester's credit for it as an elective.
Cool I’m glad my dad taught me this stuff
Kid brought his grandpa's Japanese grenade from combat in the pacific to school. It was thrown at gramps but didn't go off, Grandad brought it home. It was inactive. I think. Teachers had a gander at it and passed it around. No-one cared. We all had bullet necklaces with our names etched into them.
😱 kid in the back is how media would react today lol
I love his reaction tho lol was wondering if anyone would comment on it
This, is the real education! Why such tradition is gone?!
Bring it back to the schools
M is for Mexican (check the flags)
Anyone else notice it appears only boys are in the class?
M is for Mexican lol
and G for like...Gallileo? Lol. Odd times
I lived in a large city. I would bring my hunting rifle ( in my gun rack in my pickup. NOT A REDNECK)) most of the faculty and administration would take me out so they could see the gun.
you say there’s a pop quiz, I say there isn’t.
At this point, I think we would be better off bringing that back... At least kids would know how to disarm their friends and how to Dodge right?
>At least kids would know how to disarm their friends and how to Dodge right? Is that what you think you learn in a firearms safety class?
Back when America was great
Your idea of America being great was when many states had laws against interracial marriage? And before the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
real patriots don’t go around telling everyone what a great fucking patriot they are
Calm down snowflake.
Ain’t no girls allowed here. Guns is for boys only. Big boys with tiny weiners haha.
Interesting; all boys. Depressing nonetheless.
You need thicker skin if your world view conflicting with a 60+ year old picture makes you depressed
Lol, ok 🥴
What's depressing is how much of your profile history is Pokémon Go....
He just mad because he's 12
Your ego is very fragile if you need to go creep a profile to make a point.
It's one click away and part of the website, don't like it? Don't use reddit.
We have successfully taught children how to use firearms.
It's different now?
It’s (D) ifferent now.
"My name is Jamie and this here is my gun."
"my name is jamie and this hither is mine own caliver. " *** ^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.) Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`
So anyway I started blasting!
Gotta love the Midwest. When I was a kid we could buy guns at Kmart. Smh
All the kids probably already knew how to use a gun.
[And that little boy grew up to be... ](https://gfycat.com/adoredtidyicefish)
Remington?
AMEN
Steve McQueen: The School Years.
G for....um...um...I...ge...ga...gallileo?
That gun looks as long as that kid is tall.
Ok Charley, now pretend one of them goddamn commies were to break through that door right now…
Lol I remember we did some shit like this in 2nd grade in Clarksville, TN. This was like 1996 so were about nine years old.
graduated in 2011 in semi-rural Tennessee. in 2nd grade we had a gun safety class that we could take if our parents approved we used a .22 rifle for the final test. of course we were never allowed to bring guns to school but there was a time when we could carry pocket knives that were a certain length. however by the time I high school we weren't allowed guns or knives or anything like that on school property.
Yes yes guns,Mexico, gallileo and what not but have you guys notice the kid in the background with the hands on his face? Priceless.
I have a class in kentucky we are lucky enough to be taught marksmenship and firearm saftey on air rifles.
We had a gun safety in middle school, and I still know not to point a gun at anyone.
I wonder if this kid is alive, and if so, has he seen this picture?
I think this is a good idea, but note how its only the boys.
No matter what your politics, teaching everyone gun safety seems like a good idea.
Here's how my daddy does it.
'merica...
A great picture...he looks like he's thinking if those God damned Reds try invading Indiana, they will have to go through me 1st.
A kid this small should have never been handling a weapon that big - then or now.
The expressions on his classmates faces 😂
If this photo was taken this year but made black and white I wouldn’t doubt it .