Gun Safety...It IS really important

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Being that I at a young age watched a family member die because anouther family member tryed to empty a loaded gun that he knew nothing about and had never fired are handled a gun before much less be trained in gun saftey. I think it should be just like when you get your hunters and boaters saftey card you have to go to a 36 hour class before you could buy a gun and also think they should include gun saftey in the hunter safety class you must take to get your hunting licence.

Im from louisiana and what I have seen in my few short years is down here most parents are family members buys a gun for someone gives it to them shows them how to load it and work the saftey and how to aim it, thats about it, basically no saftey training at all.

Im not perfect nobody is but I do everything in my power not to endanger myself and others with my acctivites with my weapons and have done all I can to teach freinds and family gun saftey.

Slippery slope that I'll never condone. If a poll test to vote is an infringement to ones "right" to vote it sure as hell is and infringement to the 2nd.

However, I do think you should have to be able to recite the 5 safety rules verbatim to graduate elementary, middle and high school and to receive a driver's license. If it was up to me the local Marine recruiter would come to the schools to teach the kids.