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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.
The thing about gun safety is that it's not just your home where kids may come across guns.
I'm a super leftist, but also a gun owner who used to work in the industry. I've been invited to several friend's houses to explain gun safety to kids AND parents.
One of the things I do is bring real guns (obviously no ammo), disassemble them, show how they work, supervise the kids handling them, etc. While my dummy guns are great tools, part of what causes kids to play with guns is their mysterious nature. You have to demystify them.
It's why when I was young, my Dad was always willing to pull out the guns with me to look at and inspect them - it kept me from doing it on my own. A gun was therefore no different to me than a drill or a hammer as far as the allure to mess with them was concerned.
I'm no longer religious, but you are doing god's work, so to speak... I really wish more leftists did as you do.
You understand that reality denial is not an effective public safety strategy... you probably also thus understsnd it is not an effective political strategy as well.
Your 'demystify' angle is, imo, spot on, that's gonna be effective with a large majority of kids, and even immature / inexperienced adults.