From new.theage.com.au, “US state weighing gun lessons for schoolchildren,” 1-28-08:
West Virginia is considering a bill to teach schoolchildren how to handle a gun and hunt safely its proponent hopes will increase state revenues from hunting licenses, a state lawmaker said Thursday.
Yes, that actually is a sentence. I read it only six times to be certain of it.
As much as I want to make redneck jokes, I’m all for this. People are hunting anyway, so you might as well create good habits early. And I’m trying to imagine the kids’ perspective, and HELL YEAH I’d want to play Duck Hunt in fourth period and go shoot at tin cans out by the track.
But why is an Australian media source covering West Virginia? Are they making fun of us over there?
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Rednecks are hot.
Well, yeah, that’s the standard international zeitgeist of late. Can you blame ‘em?
in my experience australians do love to make fun of us. also, in my experience, i almost always agree with them.
hahah yeah they do, and in my experience the English also love to make fun of us.
Somewhat on-topic:
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In the state’s defense (I have roots there, but not that deep), it’s a good idea to get kids who have an interest in hunting and/or firearms into a gun safety and hunting regluations class while they’re excited about it. Every state I’ve lived and hunted in has had a requirement of some kind involving hunter safety education courses before attaining a license. If they’re going to be out there with guns, I’d rather they knew how to use them properly and safely.
Wingnut, yes. I know how to shoot a gun and glad for it.
The goal, of course, is not to have to.
Some gun safety is better than no gun safety.
Also off-topic, but related to Jim Duncan’s comment: The other day, I was driving behind one of the taxis from the company which puts humorous little sayings on the vehicles’ back end. This one said, “Paddle faster. I hear banjos.”
I’m in favor of gun safety training. How many stories in the news go something like this: Little Johnny was playing at home with his friend Sam. The two found a gun in Johnny’s parents’ closet Blammo. Sam dies of accidentally self-inflicted injury.
I sincerely hope that parents who own guns teach their own kids about gun safety. But if your kid has people over as guests, that means others need training, too. Yes, the guns shouldn’t be accessible to begin with. But I’d personally rather be safe than sorry.
Can you hang trucknuts from the butt of a rifle? Cause that would be awesome.
I don’t like guns much but would really love to learn how to handle, clean, fire one. Might even take a class if I can get around to it.
Knowledge being the real power, after all.
That explains all the hits from Australia I get on my site. Still, if they want to make fun of us more effectively, they might want to learn about run on sentences.
i think the whole world likes to make fun of us. fortunately, we like to make fun of them too, plus we have more guns. so suck it, planet earth.
but as long as we’re going to have millions of guns scattered across the land, i do agree that at least somebody should know how to use them. to spread democracy!
i have trouble being serious.
I’m actually surprised they didn’t have this already.
When I was in middle school here in Virginia, we had an entire Hunter’s Safety course as one of our gym/health class topics. We learned about survival, how not to hold a gun, etcetera, and to top everything off the police actually brought multiple types of guns into the school and we got to hold them and look at them up close.
(Bet that doesn’t happen anymore…)
Of course, all the kids I knew from WV (which was a lot at the time) already knew all this.
I figured it was standard, but probably got phased out after the whole Columbine incident and successive streak of kids not knowing how to deal with life and taking it out on their peers via violence.
Also, Redneck/WV jokes are cliche. Nobody makes those anymore unless they WANT people to know they don’t have any sort of original humor.
(Why else do you think Foxworthy has moved on to hosting a game show?)
oh yes let’s give guns to kids. WTF???!!!!!!!!!
did anyone else get a little “wait, what” looking through the c-ville this week looking at the photo/caption regarding the “we’re trying to pass a bill that humans should not be able to drink and carry guns…”
well thanks for letting me be astounded that it is currently okay that happens… i feel so much more, dunno, like staying at home now.
I AM A REDNECK I STUFF BLOODWORMS ON HOOKS AND CATCH BASS.. EAT IT BITHCES
PS IM INEB.. DRUNK
I think you can still steal a cat…there is a bill that would prohibit driving w/ a domesticated animal on your lap out there…yeah you don’t believe me? You want to take this outside? Eh..I’m too lazy (read buzzed) to link it. So you can’t steal nor ride w/ a pussy on your lap. Is that PG-13?
Actually, this could be a contest..find the most absurd Virginia proposed legislation. There was a fierce battle out there a few years ago about whether or not to allow the Liberty Penguin to be an allowed license plate. It went to committee three or four times. Hey I’m all about shouting out to my fellow Libertarians but really nothing says Virginia like a freedom fighting Penguin.
Sorry to interrupt the cliquish discussions.
aw, thor, that’s so cute with the drunk post at 12:30. I’m serious. adorable.
taliesin: absurd laws, check it out… “Spitting on a sea gull is not tolerated.”
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/virginia
MC I’m happy to see you posting Sorry night didn’t turn out as you liked They were cool folks
Thor does appear to be hammered. Go Thor!
@13 That’s exactly what the legislature is proposing : giving children guns. I wonder if shenanigans has an agenda. Nice way to distort the facts. Its helpful to demonize people you disagree with and obscure issues with spin.
if only legislatures could make the simple analogy to sex education…
off topic, but for whatever reason, I’ve always wanted one of those mini-bulldozers in the background of that picture. would especially come in handy when I’m closing at 2am…
Awww. Thor is cute when he’s drunk. Hope that Norse gods have special hangover superpowers.
Thor can’t handle is alcohol.
I can handle my booze AND i’m not hungover!
that’s because you’re still drunk.
I can vouch for Thor’s toughness in the face of hard liquor. seevillain, on the other hand, over in the concert thread, maybe not so much?
That’s a lie. He gets hangovers after one drink. He can barely type after two. It’s just sayd.
don’t make fun of the new guy for being unintelligible. he is just as welcome to the internet as the rest of us.
anno domini, that’s a farm tractor, come on out.
You want one of these:
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yer right. I should have remembered from the game of chicken in Footloose.
I’ll take one of each, please.