Gun Safety Should Be Taught In Schools

According to USA Today, “Roughly five times a week in America, children accidently shoot themselves or someone else”. (1) Many of these accidents happen because the user was not aware of the safety Protocol of dealing with a fire. In order to prevent more accidents like these, we should teach our youth about gun safety to give them the knowledge of what to around it and discourage misuse. Although some parents think their children shouldn't be around guns in general, teaching gun safety early could save their lives and others.
Young children around America often get into many accidents because of their lack of knowledge. In a USA Today article, they assert “If they [kid] find it [guns], they'll play with it”(A.7). Most kids that don’t know what an object is tend to mess around with it until they find out what it is and does. With firearms, when they found out what it does, it’s usually too
In Chris Sacco article, he claims “Proper gun safety should, if logic prevails, include educating children about the dangers of firearms”. (1) Most parents that are against gun safety being taught to their kid may misunderstand the purpose of it. They believe it’s only good for teaching children how to shoot guns and encouraging them more to play with them, but that’s far from the goal. It teaching children that firearms are that can injury other as Sacco states “guns can and will kill them and any individual they point them at” (Sacco 1). In order to learn gun safety, the child doesn’t need to interact with it, they just need to know the dangers of it and a few simple rules. As told by Jeff and Chris Knox, “Current training teaches a layered approach to gun safety around kids” (A.7). Method restricts access to the firearms until the instructor believe the trainee has full understanding of gun safety. To prevent further accidents and misfires, kids should be informed of the dangers of