Nice!
Samantha Tibbetts, 5, wears a pink T shirt with a lady on it carrying a sparkly purse. She squirms in her chair. Tibbetts, with big blue eyes and long blonde hair, is sitting in a classroom. But it’s a classroom whose walls are cinder block, and her teacher, Paul, has a rifle cradled in his lap. Paul asks the nine kids, ages 5 to 16, to name the parts of the gun. “Can you say ‘trigger?'”
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Front Sight teaches kids to “trust their feelings” around “tricky” people. It also preaches firearms safety. Children memorize what they must do when and if they encounter a gun:”Stop. Don’t touch. Leave the area and tell an adult.”
On the firing range, under an unforgiving sun, Samantha presses up against her cheek the stock of a Chipmunk 22 by Rogue Rifle Co. She shoots at a square paper target. Older kids fire submachine guns, shotguns or handguns. James Minner, 14, was visiting Front Sight with his sister Sheila, 17, and parents, Gary and Sherry Minner of Delavan, Ill. We asked James if he had any previous shooting experience. “Yes,” he said.
Via KABA.
July 8th, 2005 at 9:31 am
“Trust their feelings?”
I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
July 8th, 2005 at 10:25 am
Actually, I do not.
Simple rules for keeping children from falling prey to predators do not always work.
For example that scout who got lost but was on the trail the entire time. His dad gave him two (mutually exculisve in his mind) instructions. Stay on the trail and do not talk to strangers. The kid got off of the trail anytime a stranger came by.
Kids need more than simple rules to help them navigate life. Though “trusting their feelings” is probably not the best way to go (though for some kids\people it is probably the best way). I think “looking for threatening behaviors” is a better method.
July 8th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
Cube, I shoulda put a smiley there. It’s a Star Wars thing.