Two Houston ISD elementary school principals are
reconsidering whether an off-campus group can come to school over a two-day
period and teach children about gun safety. No, not how to handle guns in a
safe and responsible manner, but how to avoid touching them when they see one.
Which is a good idea on its face.
But the principals reconsidered their decision to hold the
mini course for their pupils because they misunderstood that the off-campus
group was not the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) but the NRA (National
Rifle Association).
And because the NRA has evolved into an extremist lobby
group with political views way out of the mainstream of American opinion, once
they heard the course was to be given by the NRA they begged off because they
didn’t want it to look like they were making any endorsements of the NRA’s
extremist viewpoint that universal background checks, supported by 80% of
Americans, were non-starters.
I don’t know whether to jump up and down in glee over the
NRA getting the cold shoulder from HISD principals because of their extremism,
or anguish over the fact that school children will not receive training that
when they see a gun they need to go the other way and tell an adult about it.
But I guess I’ll jump up and down because I hear that the
district’s police department has a lesson plan on that one, too.
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