NRA's Gun-Safety Course Finds Favor in Schools
Even as some educators are going up against the National Rifle Association in the hallways of statehouses and the U.S. Capitol over gun control, others are bringing the organization's gun-avoidance program into their classrooms in a different kind of effort to safeguard children against firearms.
The NRA's Eddie Eagle Gun Safe Program is not the only program of its kind available to teachers, but it is the largest, having reached by its own estimates 12 million children since 1988. Geared to elementary students, Eddie Eagle's lessons revolve around a central lesson on what children should do if they see a gun: "Stop! Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult."
"Just as Smokey the Bear teaches children not to play with matches," the NRA says on its World Wide Web site, "Eddie Eagle teaches them that firearms are not toys, and should not be...
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