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In case you didn't grow up in a rightwing / gun nut family...
Yeah, this is a thing and has been for a while,.fairly normalized use of animal mascots for... fairly serious, generally adult level topics.
I think this is more of less the idea of 'family appropriate'.
Anyway!
Ladies and Gents: The NRA's own... Eddie Eagle!
(brought to you on VHS)
Apparently he's gotten a CGI makeover these days.
EDIT:
ok, now, seriously:
Eddie's slogan there is actually a pretty decent set of instructions for young kids to sing along to (its presented in a sing song way) to actually instill a very basic but effective level of how a kid should treat / react to a found gun.
Obviously, the concept of ... keeping a gun, in a home, with kids... which can even be found 8n the first place... is an entirely different issue.
The ... slogan is obviously not a fullproof safety mechanism.
But, I can still sing that derpy slogan to this day, so it did at least work on me.
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I went through the whole gun safety schpiel in school and summer camp. My parents didn't keep guns readily available, but my grandparents and the neighbor kids's parents did. The grandparents got a speech and a gun safe. The neighbors... well, my parents never went in their house, so how would my parents know? (My parents were baaaad at social)
Anyways, agreed. Too many guns are easy for kids to get ahold of, and parents don't know everything about where their kids are.
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Yeah...
The flipside of this, which I have also often encountered:
Rabidly anti-gun people who get their hands on, or get near one, and have less than 0 conception of how proper gun safety works, will sweep the fuck out of everyone, with their finger in/on the trigger...
... Or, will be utterly terrified when you do a proper unloading/check of the weapon, with it pointed in a safe direction, screaming at or even shoving you while you do this.
There's plenty of very immediate and practical stupid all the way around the sociopolitical spectrum when it comes to guns, it just comes in different flavors.
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Yeah I wasn't raised around guns by anyone in my family (the aunt that had a gun was seen as trashy for it among other things), but as an adult I think it's irresponsible to raise a child in America without teaching basic gun safety. I hate that it's like that, but it is. There are a lot of "responsible gun owners" who have kids and no gun safe.
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The thing about gun safety is that it's not just your home where kids may come across guns.
I'm a super leftist, but also a gun owner who used to work in the industry. I've been invited to several friend's houses to explain gun safety to kids AND parents.
One of the things I do is bring real guns (obviously no ammo), disassemble them, show how they work, supervise the kids handling them, etc. While my dummy guns are great tools, part of what causes kids to play with guns is their mysterious nature. You have to demystify them.
It's why when I was young, my Dad was always willing to pull out the guns with me to look at and inspect them - it kept me from doing it on my own. A gun was therefore no different to me than a drill or a hammer as far as the allure to mess with them was concerned.
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I'm no longer religious, but you are doing god's work, so to speak... I really wish more leftists did as you do.
You understand that reality denial is not an effective public safety strategy... you probably also thus understsnd it is not an effective political strategy as well.
Your 'demystify' angle is, imo, spot on, that's gonna be effective with a large majority of kids, and even immature / inexperienced adults.
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He's Den of Tools. He doesn't do the bear much anymore.
Also gotten away from good tool reviews. Honestly his channel kind of just feels like a cash grab anymore with sponsorships and a bunch of affiliate links for shite tools on Amazon.
He moved onto Amazon now? He was just a blatant shill for Harbor Freight.