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People said the same thing about sex-ed. Thing is, not every parent teaches their child about guns just as many parents avoid ever adressing birth control. Therefore the school needs to pick up a basic gun saftey coarse to do what many parents won't.
Except that sex education is part of biology lessons. And there are plenty of people who home school so that their children do not have to get some subjects taught on schools or so that they can add their subjective view on those subjects to these subjects.
Virtually everybody is going to have sex at some time in their life, learning the birds and the bees stuff is nothing more than logical.
A lot of people will never own or handle a firearm. In fact more and more households are gun free (compared to a few decades ago). And it is not that I am against people learning to shoot guns, especially in areas of the country where they will most likely at some time have to fire weapons (to protect themselves from dangerous animals) but that is the duty of the parents to teach their children, not the school system.
In most discussion conservatives want to limit the influence of government on their lives but when it comes to their "opinions" all of that against government/big government is thrown out the window. Just like this issue, it is for the parents of the individuals to decide whether or not a child comes in contact with weapons. Not the NRA, not the government or the Republican party/conservatives.
I would not even have a problem if the government subsidizes safe gun classes for teenagers but not at schools. That at least is my opinion.