CyborgWarrior
04-25-2010, 08:19 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/20/AR2010042003752.html?hpid=sec-education
RICHMOND -- The Virginia General Assembly has directed the state's Board of Education to develop course materials for teaching gun safety to elementary school children that incorporate the guidelines of a National Rifle Association program.
The measure (http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=101&typ=bil&val=hb1217), approved during the legislature's recently concluded annual session, allows local school boards to choose whether to implement the program.
A leading Democrat in the state Senate had amended the bill to allow the state board to also incorporate materials from a second group, the National Crime Prevention Center. But Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) has proposed stripping the amendment from the bill, leaving the reference only to NRA material.
A McDonnell spokeswoman said there is no such group as the National Crime Prevention Center. The similarly named National Crime Prevention Council, best known for its McGruff the Crime Dog (http://www.mcgruff.org/) programs, did develop a gun safety curriculum several years ago, but a spokesman for the group said it has not been updated in several years.
kudos to Virginia
from the comments
The real agenda of the NRA is to educate our children to emulate the slave owning, indian murdering, misogynists that founded this country. If they prevail we will not need police or a legal system, we just whip out the guns we wear on our hips and blow away anyone we decide has no right to live. Way to go McDonnell/Robertson, Virginia has finally come to it's angle of repose. Stupid is as stupid does."
RICHMOND -- The Virginia General Assembly has directed the state's Board of Education to develop course materials for teaching gun safety to elementary school children that incorporate the guidelines of a National Rifle Association program.
The measure (http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=101&typ=bil&val=hb1217), approved during the legislature's recently concluded annual session, allows local school boards to choose whether to implement the program.
A leading Democrat in the state Senate had amended the bill to allow the state board to also incorporate materials from a second group, the National Crime Prevention Center. But Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) has proposed stripping the amendment from the bill, leaving the reference only to NRA material.
A McDonnell spokeswoman said there is no such group as the National Crime Prevention Center. The similarly named National Crime Prevention Council, best known for its McGruff the Crime Dog (http://www.mcgruff.org/) programs, did develop a gun safety curriculum several years ago, but a spokesman for the group said it has not been updated in several years.
kudos to Virginia
from the comments
The real agenda of the NRA is to educate our children to emulate the slave owning, indian murdering, misogynists that founded this country. If they prevail we will not need police or a legal system, we just whip out the guns we wear on our hips and blow away anyone we decide has no right to live. Way to go McDonnell/Robertson, Virginia has finally come to it's angle of repose. Stupid is as stupid does."