I think the people planning this conference are showing their bias, and their lack of experience. A Gun Is Not Fun
Professor Yamane has some thoughts on a conference, titled “A Gun is Not Fun: Strategies to Keep Children Safe from Gun Violence.” It is supposed to be about convincing children, but there are questions.
It is not fun for an untrained child to come across an unsupervised gun. But I sense that the author’s point goes beyond this limited circumstance and wants to say that guns generally are not fun.
To me, that’s a problem. Because guns are fun. This is the first of five lessons I conclude my Gun Curious book with. I quote Trae Crowder’s Liberal Redneck Manifesto there: “The simple fact of guns is that they’re fun as shit.” I rehearse the gun culture idiom: There’s no such thing as an anti-gun gun range. Googling “guns are fun” brings up an article in GQ magazine from 2012 titled: Why "Gun Control" Isn't Working: Because Guns Are Fun, And Control Is Not.
Click thru for the data on accidental deaths via firearms among children, and the Professor's thoughts on more about the topic.
He does bring up Eddie Eagle, the program from the NRA aimed at reducing firearm-related accidents among kids. Somehow I doubt that the people organizing the seminar see Eddie Eagle as a good thing, even if they know it exists. (NRA = Bad. Everything NRA = Bad. Or something)
Go read the whole thing. You should be reading Professor Yamane's work. And watching his videos.
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