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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Good for you. But FL doe not deem it necessary in order to carry a weapon.
And of course you should leanr the locals laws wherever you live (or intend to carry)...
I'd love to see gun safety taught in schools. But it'll never happen in many states, due to their irrational fear of anything that goes "BANG"...
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Agree with gun safety in schools. We had it back in the day. Of course, that "day" was over 60 years ago now. We'd take our guns to school on the bus. Once at the school the guns were stored in the principal's office, but the ammo was just carried loose in our pockets--usually next to the trusty Barlow or Case pocket knife that no self-respecting lad in the Minnesota north woods was ever caught without. But the mindset was different. Guns (and knives for that matter) were seen as tools, and like any other tool it was best to learn how to use it properly. We didn't fear guns. But we did respect them, just as we respected any other dangerous tool. In all my years as an adolescent and young man up there I know of only two instances where people I knew were injured by guns; one idiot who was practicing a "quick draw" with a .22 magnum revolver and shot himself in the bladder, and another guy who was grazed by a bullet along the side of his head while hunting deer. Both lived. I knew plenty more that were hurt or killed by tools like chain saws, hydraulic loaders, farm and heavy logging equipment, even axes.
I often think that the fear of guns engendered by the hysteria in some parts of society is as responsible as anything else for many of the gun incidents we hear about.