Dsth
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This video below is a little bit long, approximately 15 minutes, but we always showed this video at the end of every hunter ed class. It's obviously geared towards younger children, but we always felt like it drilled in the importance of gun safety. The room was always silent when the video ended. Some of the kids even had tears in their eyes, especially when they realized it was based on a true story. We always wanted the kids to have fun and enjoy their time in the class, but we wanted them to understand how serious it was and how all of the instructions they had just learned needed to be followed because it could be a matter of life and death.
That is a really great video. thanks for sharing. Back when I was in middle or high school, a classmate and good friend invited me to sleep over at his house for the night. he and his brothers were avid coon hunters and hunted very often. My classmate was the oldest of the boys in the family. we were upstairs and were coming down the steps when one of his younger brothers said something my classmate didn't like. at the bottom of the steps was the storage closest for the guns. my classmate picked up a shotgun and pointed it at his younger brother's head, finger on the trigger, and asked me if he should let him have it. I was shocked and I'm sure it took me a few seconds to respond, but eventually said "NO it might be loaded" He then pointed the mussel down and said, "No, we always unload before we put them away." But to his surprise when he checked the gun, it was loaded with a shell in the chamber. his face turned white as a ghost and said," Oh my god, I could have killed him." I don't think I will ever forget that day.