Caleb at Call Me Ahab points to an article outlining a bill that would have Hunters Education/Firearms Safety classes taught in West Virginia schools.
A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left multimillion dollar holes in the state’s budget and one lawmaker thinks he has the solution: allow children to receive hunter training in school.
Children would be instructed in everything from survival skills to gun safety, but the guns would either have dummy ammunition or be disabled in some way. Sen. Billy Wayne Bailey, who introduced the bill, doesn’t envision West Virginia’s middle-schoolers firing real guns during class time.”It’s a way to take this kind of education in the classroom and make it more convenient for young people,” the Wyoming County Democrat said.
But what current member of a teacher’s union that could find the “muzzle†on a firearm?
OK, maybe in West Virginia they could find a few, but the tri-county area of western Washington it would most likely mean new hires.