Gun Training is Schools? A Ray of Hope?

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W.Va. considers gun training in schools
Posted by Pedro Ramirez III January 31, 2008 8:26AM
Categories: Breaking News, Crime & Safety, Schools
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left a hole in the state's budget, and one lawmaker thinks he has a solution: allow children to receive hunter training in school.

Seventh- through ninth-graders could opt for instruction in topics ranging from survival skills to gun safety, but the weapons would have dummy ammunition or be disabled. Sen. Billy Wayne Bailey, who introduced the bill this month, doesn't envision students firing real guns during class time.

"It's a way to take this kind of education in the classroom and make it more convenient for young people," said Bailey, a Wyoming County Democrat.

West Virginia, where roughly 320,000 people participated in the recent two-week gun season for bucks, may be the only state contemplating such a bill, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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My kids did get gun training in school, they also shot in the school's gun club, at school! Of course that was in the 1960's and 1970's. That was in WI in a Milwaukee suburb (Brookfield). My, how things have changed...