Gun safety
In New Zealand, kids as young as four are getting gun licenses as part of being educated and learning gun safety:
Four-year-old preschooler Lucy Coup has already earned her own gun licence.
Like the other children at her Auckland kindergarten, and in childcare centres around New Zealand, the youngster hangs the laminated licence from a string around her neck when she plays with her toy gun but she must shoot at the target.
“We don’t shoot people, because it might hurt them,” Lucy says firmly.
Instead of banning gun play, many early education centres are adopting a policy that sees children earn a “gun licence” once they brush up on the dangers.
April 5th, 2011 at 9:39 am
Blood will run in the streets! Think of the children! Yada, yada, yada…
April 5th, 2011 at 9:42 am
i like π Wish Australia would be so sensible …
April 5th, 2011 at 11:25 am
That is a good way to teach kids early on that all activities require a license from the government. Just wait until next year when they learn how to earn a “sex license” or perhaps a “speech license”
April 5th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Wow.
April 8th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Better than banning everything that looks like a gun.