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I went to a rural school, and everyone had a "hunters education" class in like 7th grade. We never touched a gun but we could legally go hunting with a gun after.
A shit ton of kids hunt, and most ranges are fine with kids if an adult is with them too.
Like, it varies state to state, but in lots of areas it's weird for someone to graduate highschool before shooting a gun.
But besides all that, guns aren't difficult.
So yeah, pretty much.
That's crazy. I had no idea anyone had a class like that. We're basically training kids to be school shooters... at school?
You can't expect parents to do everything.
No, I don't expect parents who are ignorant about guns to teach their kids safety. We shouldn't have to, but that's where we're at.
Hunter's ed is basically the opposite of what you stated. It's not part of the state curriculum. It's similar to drivers ed courses for people to be able to get a learners permit before they turn 18. Similarly below a certain ages, most states require completion of a hunter's education course to be able to purchase a hunting license and legally hunt.
The courses go over topics like property rights, how to carry a weapon making sure it's not pointing at anyone, what high vis clothing is required, always knowing what is behind an animal before even aiming, rules about how a weapon must be unloaded when in a vehicle, and they strongly urge keeping an interference lock in the action of any firearm in storage.
Hunter's ed doesn't teach kids how to shoot, they teach kids how to not be idiots when hunting.
The person I replied to specifically said it was part of the 7th grade curriculum. Classes like that existing is not surprising, but it being part of middle school curriculum is very surprising to me.
A large amount of Americans that grew up with firearms in the home learned to shoot at the ages of 5 to 7. The reason those ages are mentioned is because that's the time that an average human is able to hold a pistol unattended and play with it if they don't understand the danger. I never wanted to play with guns because I knew what they were and how they worked my entire life. Most of that training will simply be that if you find a firearm unattended, you are supposed to find an adult to attend that firearm. Explaining the dangers of firearms and that anything pointed at by a firearm will be destroyed. Explaining only goes so far. Seeing on the other hand, the power and destruction that can be wrought leaves a much more lasting impression. The main purpose of all of this is because children educated purely through media have many false ideas about firearms and weapons and damage that they can cause.
Media glorifies guns and gun use and violence. In media people get shot all the time and take no real damage for it. It is important to impress upon children that have easy access to firearms that they are tools and weapons and not toys.
Tldr Children are taught about guns for the same reason kids are taught sex education.
Sounds like an elective class. My ex-wife's niece was in an after-school shotgun club. I gather it was more target practice than hunting.
I'm of the opinion that familiarity with actually shooting is more of a deterrent to the school shooter mentality than fetishizing guns. I'm basing that mostly on the idea that these school shooters can't seem to handle a weapon, given that kills are the goal.
As they said, you really dont need to know much to operate a semi automatic weapon. Everything you need to know is public knowledge that can be found on wikipedia, youtube, etc.
You dont need to be a very good shot if you shoot at 5m distance...
I learned how to shoot a shotgun when I was 13 at school. We were in the shooting club. It was just shotguns and skeet shooting, but still.
Even without much education, I was a geek in a rural location, one time a friend's dad put a cigarette (half 3/4 done or so) on a fence cause we were having a competition and we hit them all. Mean the cigarette was only say 15 - 20 feet away but I I split it in half with a BB gun (yes no kick of course), probably luck but I was hitting the targets too and the dad figured no one would hit that one. It wasn't a long range but I figure someone with access to a rifle should shoot fine enough if they practice even a bit if I can without access. I only shot a gun maybe a dozen times in total.
For the non American, how old is it supposed to be, please tell me it's the last year of high school with 18 yo, and you were in a vocational school not a generic one
Americans graduate from 12th at 17/18
So I think I'd have been 12, and it was a public generic school
And if that sounds too early, hunting season started like a week earlier than the class and another 12 year old in my class already had his license (lots did) but that kid climbed a fence with a loaded shotgun while hunting and blew off a couple of his toes.
So like, it's hard to argue it was "too early" because the kids were already running around unsupervised with guns.
Before Columbine people would go hunting before school and if they didn't get anything they'd come straight to school with their gun in the back window of their truck. After they just stopped leaving them clearly visible.