Now is not the time to talk about gun control (1 Viewer)

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah students in as early as kindergarten would be required to learn about firearm safety in the classroom under a bill that passed the state House with overwhelming support Friday.

The Republican-controlled chamber approved the measure in a 59-10 vote and sent it to the Senate, despite concerns from some gun violence prevention advocates that it places an undue burden on children.

Under the proposal, public school students would receive mandatory instruction throughout their K-12 years on how to respond if they encounter a gun. The lessons, which could be presented in a video or by an instructor displaying an actual firearm, would demonstrate best practices for safely handling and storing a gun to prevent accidents.

Elementary age children would learn about gun safety on at least three occasions by the time they reach sixth grade, with the possibility for that instruction to begin in kindergarten, when kids are around five years old.

The bill’s Republican sponsor, Rep. Rex Shipp of Cedar City, said it’s aimed at preventing accidental shootings by and of young children. The lessons, he said, will be age-appropriate for each grade level, with younger students learning to avoid touching a gun and alert an adult immediately.……

Kindergarteners could learn gun safety in school under a bill gaining momentum in Utah

Utah students as early as kindergarten would be required to learn about firearm safety in the classroom under a bill that passed the state House.

apnews.com

Huh? By that reasoning they should be supporting sex education in droves. We know that ain’t gonna happen.

 

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah students in as early as kindergarten would be required to learn about firearm safety in the classroom under a bill that passed the state House with overwhelming support Friday.

The Republican-controlled chamber approved the measure in a 59-10 vote and sent it to the Senate, despite concerns from some gun violence prevention advocates that it places an undue burden on children.

Under the proposal, public school students would receive mandatory instruction throughout their K-12 years on how to respond if they encounter a gun. The lessons, which could be presented in a video or by an instructor displaying an actual firearm, would demonstrate best practices for safely handling and storing a gun to prevent accidents.

Elementary age children would learn about gun safety on at least three occasions by the time they reach sixth grade, with the possibility for that instruction to begin in kindergarten, when kids are around five years old.

The bill’s Republican sponsor, Rep. Rex Shipp of Cedar City, said it’s aimed at preventing accidental shootings by and of young children. The lessons, he said, will be age-appropriate for each grade level, with younger students learning to avoid touching a gun and alert an adult immediately.……

Kindergarteners could learn gun safety in school under a bill gaining momentum in Utah

Utah students as early as kindergarten would be required to learn about firearm safety in the classroom under a bill that passed the state House.

apnews.com

What could go wrong? Play stupid games...yeah.

 

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And it’s mandatory

What happened to parents rights?

What if you don’t want your five year old anywhere near a gun?

 

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And it’s mandatory

What happened to parents rights?

What if you don’t want your five year old anywhere near a gun?

Parents’ rights is a meme to be discarded at will by Republicans.

 

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Parents’ rights is a meme to be discarded at will by Republicans.

Just like states rights. Same thing.

 

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Just like states rights. Same thing.

Or gun rights, if we’re talking about…those people.

 

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Or gun rights, if we’re talking about…those people.

Exactly. Reagan’s gun control I have heard was related to armed Black Panthers patrolling the streets.

 

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Parents’ rights is a meme to be discarded at will by Republicans.

As are all republican principles. Hah.

 

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Just like states rights. Same thing.

Yes and…

 

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Or gun rights, if we’re talking about…those people.

Yes.

 

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Exactly. Reagan’s gun control I have heard was related to armed Black Panthers patrolling the streets.

That is true

But that fact is now considered CRT and is therefore forbidden

 

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One out of every 15 adults in the U.S. has been present at the scene of a mass shooting, researchers have revealed.

More alarming is that over 2 percent of that group — or over five million of the 258 million adults counted in the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020 — have been injured during one.

“These are really high numbers for this seemingly unique and small subset of gun violence,” David Pyrooz, a professor of sociology and criminologist at University of Colorado at Boulder, said in a statement.

The authors also found that younger generations of Americans were significantly more likely to have been exposed than previous generations were. Gen Zers, who were born after 1996 and are in their late to mid-twenties, were at greatest risk.

More than half of respondents said the incident had occurred in the last decade, which Pyrooz said led “credence to the idea of a ‘mass shooting generation.’”………

One in 15 U.S. adults have been on the scene of a mass shooting, report finds

Researchers say the findings lend credence to the idea of a ‘mass shooting generation’ with experiences that are separate from older generations

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Florida Republicans are attempting to roll backstate laws on the legal age of gun ownership,which was raised following the deadly 2018 Parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead.

A bill sponsored by congresswoman Michelle Salzman would lower the legal gun-buying age back down from 21 to 18 so that “all adult citizens in Florida are afforded their full Second Amendment rights.”

"The ability to purchase and utilize a firearm is your constitutional right, and reinstating those rights is the right thing to do for Floridians," Salzman said on Wednesday. "We must stop infringing on the constitutional rights of law-abiding adults who are old enough to serve in our military and make other significant life decisions."

The bill cleared its first committee stop in the House on Wednesday, with the GOP-controlled House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voting 13-5 along straight party lines to approve the proposal.…….

Florida Republicans look to roll back state’s gun-ownership law to 18

Florida’s age of gun ownership was raised to 21 after 17 people were killed by gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

www.independent.co.uk

 

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The Trump administration has removed the former surgeon general Vivek Murthy’s advisory on gun violence as a public health issue from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ website.

This move was made to comply with Donald Trump’s executive order to protect second amendment rights, a White House official told the Guardian.

The “firearm violence in America” page, where the advisory had been posted, was filled with data and information about the ripple effects of shootings, the prevalence of firearm suicides and the number of American children and adolescents who have been shot and killed. Now, when someone reaches the site they will be met with a “page not found” message.

When it was originally released last summer, Murthy’s advisory was met with praise from violence prevention and research groups, and was lambasted by second amendment law centers and advocacy groups that argued the Biden administration was using public health as a cloak to push forward more gun control.

“This is an extension of the Biden Administration’s war on law-abiding gun owners. America has a crime problem caused by criminals,” the National Rifle Association (NRA) said in a statement posted to X on 25 July 2024.

But Daniel Semenza, a firearm violence researcher with Rutgers University, argues that talking about gun violence through a public health lens is meant to “bring the heat down” about a deeply politicized issue and broaden what prevention can look like.

In 2023, nearly 47,000 people died by firearms, most of them suicides.

“When people read gun violence is a public health problem, they read guns are a public health problem,” Semenza said. “This idea actually removes the politics from the issue and is an engine to get us on the same page. [The removal] feels like an unnecessary and mean-spirited way to politicize something that people have actively been trying to bring people together on.”……….

White House removes advisory defining gun violence as a public health issue

Webpage listing statistics and information on shootings taken down as Trump seeks to protect second amendment

www.theguardian.com

 

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