Why would a high school have an indoor rifle range?

[Lee-Lee]

31. Not feared. Respected and understood.

Fear of them is irrational.

A student is far more likely to be killed by a car than a gun. We don't insist on teaching students to fear driving, we use drivers ed to, hopefully, get across how dangerous driving can be and teach them to respect it and be responsible.

As has been pointed out, just saying "guns evil, stay away." Just makes them forbidden fruit. Coupled with ignorance and a lack of respect for how dangerous they can be when misused, teens end up gravitated to the forbidden fruit and then play with them like they see on video games and movies.

Teach a healthy respect for them, how to be safe with them, and what to do if someone is being unsafe. Remove the mystique that glamorizes them by familiarity.

I can see a definite difference between a teen who has been taught to respect a firearm and handle it safely and one who learned all they know from video games. My Army Reserve unit did a recruiting event at a fair where there was also a display of historical weapons an militaria. The kids who had been properly taught when allowed to hold the old WWII guns ( ones that had been deactivated and could not fire) checked to ensure they were unloaded and kept them aimed in a safe direction. The ones who had not almost all immediately pulled the trigger as soon as it was handed to them and were aiming them wildly as if they were toys. I felt sorry for the guys watching them, they tried to correct them and give them safety lessons, but it was one after another.

You may dislike guns, but you can't argue that having teens so ignorant on safe handling that if they do come across one they handle it in an unsafe manner like it is a video game is a good thing.