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SSG William Jones
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Makes me harken back the "Back in My Day" memories when we went to school with shotguns in our vehicles (usually in truck gunrack) so we could leave school at three o'clock and go dove hunting.
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Sgt David Ray
Sgt David Ray
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My dad told a story about two girls and a boy walking to school on a country road in east Texas, about 1925. The girls got excited about some cute piglets by the side of the road. The boy realized they were between a feral hog and her piglets, and warned them while he tried to distract the sow. They got up a tree and escaped harm, but he had a leg mauled by the sow’s tusks. A nearby farmer heard the girl’s screams
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Sgt David Ray
Sgt David Ray
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<continued> The farmer shot the feral sow. It was common for boys to take guns to school and hunt for supper on the way home; but after the attack, all girls and young boys were told to wait near their homes until someone with a rifle or shotgun came by. Families with only one gun made a point to obtain more so that there was at least one at home and one for their son to carry as escort for their neighbors’ kids.
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LTC Trent Klug
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This is a great thing! Everyone should have this training.
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MSG Thomas Currie
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Firearm accidents are actually a more serious problem than "mass shootings"

Perhaps more importantly, firearm accidents are a problem with a reasonable and logical solution: Education!

Rather than trying to make all firearms magically disappear, if the people pretending to be concerned about Gun Safety were serious they would be pushing for mandatory firearms safety education starting at the kindergarten level with something very similar to the NRA's Eddie Eagle program (Stop! Don't Touch! Tell An Adult!) with more technical training in elementary and middle schools.
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