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Politics : The 2nd Amendment-- The Facts........ -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeffA who wrote (1291)	6/5/2001 12:21:07 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10167

KIDS, CONDOMS, & GUNS \| In Maryland, Democrat Gov. Parris Glendening has just vetoed bipartisan gun safety education legislation. It would have made Maryland the first in the nation to establish public-school guidelines for gun safety instruction from kindergarten through grade 12. Some teachers' groups and school administrators argued against top-down, unfunded curriculum mandates. But the same groups hardly complained when the state legislature passed a politically correct mandate for HIV-AIDS education in 1988. Gov. Glendening's objections show just how willing some liberals are to sacrifice children's safety to absolutist anti-gun ideology. The bill, Glendening said, "would create a clear appearance of the state encouraging young people to handle weapons and potentially furthering their interest in a time when we are trying to fight the scourge of gun violence." He attacked a provision allowing students in grades seven through 12 to participate in hunter-safety programs at certified shooting ranges, and he blasted another provision allowing local school boards to work with community or civic groups to develop their safety curricula. Those parts of the law, he said, raised "the specter of the National Rifle Association (NRA) taking bus loads of 13-year-old boys and girls off to a firing range for a day of shooting." And what exactly would be wrong with that? The NRA teaches tens of thousands of children and teens across the country every year how to handle firearms safely and responsibly...(more of column at site below.) michellemalkin.com