BRIEF: West Virginia Law Maker Proposes Gun Training Classes In School To Boost Interest In Hunting

WEST VIRGINIA, United States - West Virginian Senator Billy Wayne Bailey has proposed legislation that will allow public schools to offer hunter training during regular school hours.  The legislation was proposed in response to the state's depleted budget due to the reduction in the number of hunters within the state.
 
The proposed legislation had drawn criticism due to the proximity of guns (unloaded) to the school’s general body.  In the wake of school violence over the last decade, critics disapprove of the government’s attempt embed gun training within the public school curriculum.
 
To secure a hunter’s license in West Virginia, residents must complete ten hours of hunter’s training and be at least ten years old.  In addition, perspective hunters must prove that they can load and unload a gun, carry it across an obstacle, and correctly direct the muzzle of the gun.  Finally, the fee for the licenses is $33. 

For more information, please see:

AP – W.Va. May Offer Gun Training in Schools – 31 January 2008

Comments

What does this have to do with impunity?

Seems like the government is, at the least, turning a “blind-eye” to possible violence that could stem from sanctioning a "guns in school" policy.