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Gun Safety Training v. Sex Ed in Schools-Liberal Logic?
July 24, 2008 | Tagged gun safety, liberal bias, NAS, sex ed |
There is an interesting remark concerning gun safety education in the Executive Summary of the massive National Academy of Sciences study. (1) The NAS Executive Summary opined that school firearms safety education may not be desirable, because it may increase interest in guns and “risky” behavior, and may, in fact, promote youthful handling of guns (gasp!) and hence, by extension, gun-related violence. Liberals, as a group, don’t support gun safety instruction.
The folks at the NAS apparently do support sex education, while having to face the fact that about 26% of the young women in America, most of them graduates of sex education courses, have sexually transmitted diseases.
Liberals can hold these opposing ideas in their “huge” brains, because they are oh-so sophisticated (Like the Europeans), and nuanced, and cool, and “far out.” You get the idea. Then, when a kid who is uneducated in gun-handling, finds a pistol in a closet and accidentally shoots his sister, or himself, the Libs will swarm and scream for “safe storage,” waiting periods, registration, micro-stamping, or whatever the Left-wing talking point du jour happens to be on a given day. In spite of the Heller Decision, Chicago’s Mayor seems intent on keeping that city’s gun ban. (Keep in mind that Barack Obama comes out of this anti-individual rights Illinois Democrat Machine.)
According to page 5 of a fact sheet from the pro-sex ed Guttmacher Institute, “Evidence shows that comprehensive sex education programs that provide information about both abstinence and contraception can help delay the onset of sexual activity among teens, reduce their number of sexual partners and increase contraceptive use when they become sexually active…”
So, is Sex Ed Ok? Apparently so. If training kids to use contraceptives is a good idea, then, unless there is some unknown factor affecting gun safety training, that should be all right, also. Oh! I know. It’s the “demonic” nature of the gun, itself. Liberals are so scientific! Maybe if we sacrificed a chicken before every gun safety class to drive away the evil spirits… No! That wouldn’t work. PETA would have a fit. It’s no wonder that Liberals are so confused. How are you going to drive out evil spirits without some sort of sacrifice?
Oh yeah! We’ll sacrifice the Bill of Rights. Nobody really cares about that, although it’s going to be tougher after the Heller Decision. The Libs will keep funding research until they come up with a study that indicates that gun control works. Don’t look for much firearms safety instruction in your public schools. However, Sex Ed should be popular, especially if the Dems win big in November.
(1) (This review of research in the field of crime control found no significant evidence that gun laws prevent crime.) (This finding came in spite of the fact that the NAS study was apparently designed with a certain amount of anti-gun bias in mind.) (See Kopel and Reynolds, “Political Science, Doing science a grave injustice.”)
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