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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.
I went through the whole gun safety schpiel in school and summer camp. My parents didn't keep guns readily available, but my grandparents and the neighbor kids's parents did. The grandparents got a speech and a gun safe. The neighbors... well, my parents never went in their house, so how would my parents know? (My parents were baaaad at social)
Anyways, agreed. Too many guns are easy for kids to get ahold of, and parents don't know everything about where their kids are.
Yeah I wasn't raised around guns by anyone in my family (the aunt that had a gun was seen as trashy for it among other things), but as an adult I think it's irresponsible to raise a child in America without teaching basic gun safety. I hate that it's like that, but it is. There are a lot of "responsible gun owners" who have kids and no gun safe.
Yeah.
They are so commonplace that... if you would teach your kids to say, stay away from and do not touch used needles at a park or on a sidewalk?
You should probably also teach your young kids at least Eddie Eagle level of gun safety, regardless of whether or not there's a gun in your household.