Lawmaker proposes gun safety course for Texas high schools

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Updated: 2/15 3:48 pm

AUSTIN -- A Texas lawmaker wants to add a course on gun safety to the list of electives for high school students.

KUVE reports that state Rep. James White (R-Hillister), a former high school teacher and football coach, filed HB 1142, which would let high schools offer a course on firearm safety, training and history and could include training in the use of firearms including rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers.

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catwalk0826 - 2/17/2013 2:46 PM
3 Votes
Jacobez...Your idea that school will teach kids how to work is such a joke...They learn how to cheat, how to freeload off the government, they don't learn history!, they don't say the pledge to our flag, they don't learn how to work together, they learn to hate, and they learn that Obama is our "dad" (OMG).....SO LEARNING GUN SAFETY IS CERTAINLY A GOOD IDEA. SOMEDAY ONE OF THESE KIDS JUST MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE.

catwalk0826 - 2/17/2013 2:40 PM
2 Votes
Not that long ago FFA had gun safety classes.

MarcelinoCR - 2/17/2013 7:09 AM
0 Votes
as long as thee students are seriouss an don goofe aroun it shoulde be ok. thate woulde be nice to convertee thee football fields into a shootin range when off season. they may even charge a smalle fee for responsibel gun owner on thee weekend an holiday.

joedomino - 2/16/2013 11:40 PM
2 Votes
excellent!

Gecko - 2/15/2013 11:13 PM
4 Votes
Some one needs to do a background check on 'Jacobez', he/she is one odd person. And yes......gun safety training can lead to a law enforcement or military career. As long as it's an 'elective' one has the right as long as it's done off the school campus. Requiring young people to take this course would be unacceptable.

Strings - 2/15/2013 8:50 PM
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I often fear that I failed my pet cat because I did not teach him to use a gun. It is true, I had him declawed because he kept leaping up on the bed and drawing blood from the women, but I never expected this to be a detriment in the later days of defending the fort. Now that he has declined in years and is no longer interested in mousing, his ways have been perverted by the devil and tend towards humping pictures of rabbits that he finds on the internet. I despise this, because rabbits and felines were never destined by the one true Lord to interact, and it is only by the abolitionists, them people that want to mix different kinds of animals, that where once was an answer is now the very definition of the rot, and by that I mean the fungus that covers death, which follows the mixing of the skin. God said, and it is portrayed in the fur for all that study, only a few are allowed to mix studies in the university of the mind, and YOU know what I mean, so shut up about it, or I will tell your mother.

Strings - 2/15/2013 8:26 PM
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Did them clubs you have about guns and knives get you a job when you got out of that there High School? My pet cat got a job at IBM because it learned how to meow real good in college, but not at one of them fake schools where you have to get student loans to pay for power point presentations that teach you how to wipe your ass. No kidding, really, my cat's name is Leopold Stravinski, and he works as an accountant for Target at the corporate headquarters. I suspect he might be, like light in the loafers (I had him declawed) but when he comes home for Christmas he likes to go out at night and dance around with the neutered hound dogs in the neighborhood, so it's hard to tell.

mcirv - 2/15/2013 8:19 PM
3 Votes
When I went to High School (back in the olden days) we used to have rifle and gun clubs in school.

Strings - 2/15/2013 7:36 PM
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This issue is completely retarded. The purpose of the educational system is to prepare our young children to work in the economy. No one working in a grocery store or at Walmart needs to learn about gun safety any more than they need to learn to play the piano, and in this case, it is worse because they might be teaching burgeoning criminals how to shoot innocent citizens more effectively, and it is a fact that a bad piano player isn't normally going to kill bystanders. THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA, RETARDED IDEAS THAT CULTIVATE THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT THAT IS DETERMINED TO MOLD OUR AMERICAN FREEDOMS INTO A CULT OF NASTY SPOOKS WHO HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO BREAK OUT OF JAIL AND MURDER PATRIOT PEDESTRIANS WALKING TO THE LIBRARY. Guns do not kill people, but you can bet that psychotic piano players do it on a regular basis, and this is the problem. Look what happened to Dodie Lee and her precious divan.

trutex - 2/15/2013 7:17 PM
6 Votes
The liberals will hate it. Let's do it!
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