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In case you didn't grow up in a rightwing / gun nut family...
Yeah, this is a thing and has been for a while,.fairly normalized use of animal mascots for... fairly serious, generally adult level topics.
I think this is more of less the idea of 'family appropriate'.
Anyway!
Ladies and Gents: The NRA's own... Eddie Eagle!
(brought to you on VHS)
Apparently he's gotten a CGI makeover these days.
EDIT:
ok, now, seriously:
Eddie's slogan there is actually a pretty decent set of instructions for young kids to sing along to (its presented in a sing song way) to actually instill a very basic but effective level of how a kid should treat / react to a found gun.
Obviously, the concept of ... keeping a gun, in a home, with kids... which can even be found 8n the first place... is an entirely different issue.
The ... slogan is obviously not a fullproof safety mechanism.
But, I can still sing that derpy slogan to this day, so it did at least work on me.
Or as we used to say as little scouts after the mandatory safety video with a terrible 90’s educational rap, “Stop, pick up, leave the area, shoot an adult!”
Good lord lol.
I cannot emphasize, the video was like 20 minutes long and literally half of it is just that same line over and over and over and over. And we had to watch it every year.
Damn, you got it worse than me, sheesh.
My dad just got a home copy and made us watch... maybe 3 times, over 2 years?
Ironically, or perhaps not, within a week of watching it the first time, I found a new box in a hall closet, surprise! It's a handgun.
I was also home alone at this time, knew how to use a phone, but my parents did not list their work numbers anywhere... So I just left it alone.
EDIT:
For any younger readers:
This is before smartphones, cellphones existed.
We had a phone, in the kitchen, mounted to the wall, that wasn't even cordless.