Let's Traumatize Some Kids Why Don't We

Since we can't give them a test or let them keep score at their ball games since that might hurt someone's feelings

by Frank Boone

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We've all heard the assertions that armed teachers would "traumatize" the children. That's funny in light of the Israelis that have been arming their teachers for decades.
In the picture below the kids look anything but traumatized by the gun over the shoulder of their teacher. Bored maybe, but certainly not scared of the gun and I'd bet not scared of anyone that might try to harm them.

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If children are introduced to guns at an early age, they are far less likely to be involved in a gun accident. This reinforces my stance that gun safety should be a part of every school's curriculum.

I know from my own life experience how important that gun training and familiarization is in being able to be around guns.

When I was 5, my father introduced me to his handguns. You know ,those evil devices that some children have found in their parent's closet and wound up shooting themselves, their siblings or a neighbor.

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My first lesson was to know how to tell if the gun was cocked (ready to fire) or not, and how to tell if it was loaded. My father taught me that was the very FIRST thing you do when you put your hands on a gun.

Check to see if it's loaded and if you're just going to handle it and not shoot it, you unload it first so it will be safe to handle.

It became so much second nature to us that if I was standing in front of my dad, opened the cylinder of a revolver and made sure it contained no ammunition, that when I handed it to him, the first thing he did was open the cylinder of the revolver and look for himself even though he had just watched me look at it and saw it was empty.

And I would, and do do the same now if the roles are reversed. Even though I saw him unload the gun, I cant help myself, as a force of habit I open the gun to see for myself again.

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In 2007 the Harrold School District in Wichita Falls, Texas started allowing teachers with concealed carry permits to carry guns in the classroom.

All of this stems from my father's best friend when I was little. His name was Lonnie and Lonnie had grown up around guns but he made one little mistake and it cost him his life.
He had just purchased a new little 22 rifle. one with an external magazine. (That part that holds the bullets) That evening he had a friend over and Lonnie first removed the magazine but didn't check or clear the chamber before he handed it to his friend sitting in his living room. I don't think I have to tell you what happened.

Without checking the chamber of the gun himself, the friend wanted to hear the gun click when he pulled the trigger and so with it laying on his lap, he did just that. He pulled the trigger. But there was a cartridge in the chamber of the gun and it fired hitting Lonnie in the head as he was about to put a record on his record player. The doctors said he was dead before his body hit the ground.

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Lonnie was to me, like an uncle. That incident not only had a profound effect on my dad but on me as well. It drove home the importance of checking a firearm before you handle it.

Let me wrap this up with my opinion. Too many people have lost sight of why we have the Second Amendment. It's not in the Bill of Rights to make sure we can go target shooting or hunting. It's there to insure that should our government become too oppressive, that we will have the ability to put it down and install a different government or reinstall the one that tried to insure our liberty.

Part of the evidence of this is the fact that surprisingly, there are many that don't even realize that the meat in their local supermarket had to be killed and butchered by someone. Lots of Americans have lost sight, because of modern conveniences, of what it takes to survive and part of survival, like it or not, involves guns.

If we would just insist that the school districts in our cities, counties and states, taught the kids about their rights, and why the constitution is the greatest document ever to be drafted by man, we'd have more people that understand the importance of not just that document but of its Second Amendment and be willing to fight to insure we keep our liberty and not surrender it to those that will not protect us like we will protect ourselves.
With As Always, All Due Respect and Much Much Love, Frank




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