Dickie,

An interesting 5 minutes of research but none of it has anything to do with teaching children safety, so it was a bit of a waste of time in that respect.
What it did show however in that Britain seems to be a dangerous place.

Spanky,

Quote "...it's when we hear of deaths out of careless stupidity that tears my goats beard out.".

So do you think that training might help to eliminate careless stupidity?
Just knew that you'd come around to seeing sense.

This subject has been taken up on some other forums and most posters there are seeing firearms training of children to be a positive step.

"This subject has been taken up on some other forums and most posters there are seeing firearms training of children to be a positive step."

May we have a reference please Is Mise?

No sooner did than said.

'Debate and Relate'. Who took the lead post from here.
http://www.debaterelate.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1661

Envirotalk, whose lead came from ' D&R'
http://www.envirotalk.com.au/forum/index.php?showtopic=7683

and on 'E-blah' we have,
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/eblah/v-post/b-newsauspolitics/m-1180858998/a-/q-/post-1/n-/

while 'The Shooters' Party'is of course with it all the way,
but have a read there and see what their point of view is,
http://www.shootersparty.org.au/

My my, Is Mise

You have been a busy lad.

I was reluctant to sign in on eBroadcast since I didn't believe I qualified. You see the bottom caption read:

"DO NOT CLICK THIS UNLESS YOU ARE UNDER 18 AND READY FOR SOME LOVIN'"

The top caption was something about Lesbians.

Methinks the "Sporting" Shooters Association would be most proud of ye!

Lang may yer lum reek, Is Mise, wi ither fowk's coal!

You did ask, Dickie, and as it's a free country you can choose which sites you look into.

Did you visit the others and are the majority of posts in favour or not?

Is mise,
Britain comes no-where near South Africa in the plight for gun control.
Britain is becoming dangerous with the use of knives.

South African 12-14 year olds, are gun totting hoodlums and feel nothing in walking up to you in broad daylight and slapping you silly with their guns cocked, pointed at your head...in a city centre.

Yeerrss.. Training as in the army kind of training.

Here's a few thoughts:
1. Training of the use of guns, start at 21
2. Training in a controlled environment, ie Police, Army, academy's shooting galleries or gun shops that cater for the training of the use of guns by a qualified teacher, not by some cowboy or Rambo who owns an arsenal.
3. An aptitude given at the age of 21 for mental competency for the handling of a firearm.

A qualified centre in the training for the use of firearms, teaches us one very important aspect, which todays youths do not seem to take into consideration and just let fly with bullets in all directions, is the simple fact of firing 3 warning shots into the air, BEFORE placing a 9mm bullet in your assailants forehead!

It's good to teach awareness to youngsters, but not too young and ready them for the time when they are able to proove they are competant and responsible individuals.