South Carolina Bill Creates A High School Gun Class

By Rebecca Leber

One South Carolina lawmaker is taking the NRA’s “more guns will keep schools safe” argument even further, with a new bill that would teach teenagers how to shoot.

Sen. Lee Bright (R), the sponsor of the legislation, argues that “the more guns we have the safer we are.” “[H]ad there been someone in Newtown with a weapon, had it been a teacher, they could have stopped it early,” Bright explained. His bill would allow schools to offer gun training at an off-site location:

Bright says he got the idea after hearing from older constituents who “remembered the days” when students could join a rifle team or learn about shooting during a school day. “We’ve got football, we’ve got basketball, and we’ve got baseball,” says Bright. “I think if they had a hunting team, it would be a great idea.”

The class, dubbed the “South Carolina Gun Safety Program” course, would focus on learning how to properly use a firearm, safety techniques, and the history of the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms, according to Bright. “The more training we can get on the history of our nation, the founding of our nation, the better,” he says.



The article source is a liberal anti-gun rag, and half of the ensuing comments are more than I can stomach   So I would not recommend clicking it and supporting their web hits, but I'll post the link here as a matter of annotation and credit:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/22/1476831/south-carolina-bill-creates-a-high-school-gun-class/?mobile=nc