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[branford]

66. My entire discussion with Rex that you joined concerned purported NRA hypocrisy.

Apparently, like flies to honey, you cannot resist offering your general opinions about the NRA, no matter how irrelevant or unrelated to the actual discussion. You are the one stuck on that.

However, if you like, let's further discuss the Eddie Eagle program.

There's certainly much to criticize about the NRA (and virtually all other major gun control and gun rights organizations), but that doesn't include Eddie Eagle, unless you and others are so blinded by impotent rage concerning firearms that you would sacrifice actual childhood safety as you tilt at the windmills of radical firearm controls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Eagle

The program is administered in schools by trained law enforcement officers with the help of a volunteer. The program trains children to avoid causing harm when they encounter firearms, through an easily remembered litany:

Stop — This first step is crucial. Stopping first allows your child the time he or she needs to remember the rest of the safety instructions
Don't touch — A firearm that is not touched or disturbed is unlikely to fire and otherwise endanger your child or other people.
Run away — This removes the temptation to touch the firearm as well as the danger that another person may negligently cause it to fire.
Tell a grown-up — Children should seek a trustworthy adult, neighbor, relative or teacher – if a parent or guardian is not available.

The curriculum includes workbooks and a short video that re-enforces the instructions. The NRA, which also sponsors training for adults in safe gun-handling, developed this program in response to news stories about deaths and injuries of youths by negligent gunfire and released the program in 2003. Anyone can request a sample of the classroom materials at no cost via the Eddie Eagle webpage.

If a free program that teaches young children to not touch firearms and immediately seek a trustworthy adult is the NRA's "way to indoctrinate kids into the right wing NRA agenda," it's no wonder the NRA has over 5 million members and growing, and much of our Party's plans for gun control, sorry... "gun safety," have gone nowhere.