GT>GT>> While we're on the subject, though, how many other people here think,
  >GT>> as we that firearms and other weapons training _should_ be a
  >GT>> mandantory part of homeschooling or other educational curriculae?
GT>RL> I hope you are not serious.  :( I for one believe if you want to do
GT>Actually, I'm quite serious.   I had such training, from an expert in the
  >field, as part of my childhood education and it quite literally saved my 
lif
  >on several occasions.   Weapons are out there, rather you like it or not, 
an
  >_any_ weapon (even a car) is far more dangerous to self and others in the 
ha
  >of someone untrained in it's proper use than in those of an expert.
Remember I don't live in the U.S. and we have strict gun control laws
here. The guns you find in Canada are usually in the hands of country
folk - farmers, hunters, etc. or those breaking the law if some way -
robbery, etc.  Weapons are not out there, here, like they are there...it
is one of the reasons I'm glad that I live in Canada.  The only gun I
ever saw in anyone's home was a rifle at my inlaw's - they live on a
farm in the middle of "nowhere". My husband (now dead) used to shoot the
rabbits that came into the garden or used it if wolves, etc. came on to
the property - things like that.
If you have a gun in the household then you have two choices as far as
children are concerned - make sure it is very safely locked up and/or
teach them how to respect and use them.
However, I will repeat myself here, I am strongly against guns myself
except in the country - or similar circumstances.
                                -Ruth
GT>RL> anything like this it should be in self defence training and I don't
  >RL> mean with weapons - Karate, Judo, Wendo, etc. and then you would want 
to
GT>We do include these as well.
GT>RL> have trained by an expert.
GT>Of course - I wouldn't have it any other way.   I myself hold a brown belt 
(
  >Shotokan) and we have a teacher who holds 3rd dan (black).
GT>                                        Wind to thy wings,
  >                                                        Glen
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