Seven Women Sound Off on Gun Safety: Teaching Gun Safety to Kids

By Jenn Jacques

As part of the Bearing Arms Against Domestic Violence campaign, we’re running a 7-part series on how seven prominent women in the firearms industry, hunting world and Second Amendment advocacy groups handle gun safety in their own homes.

In part 4, we talk to Jana Waller, Julie Golob, Stacy Washington, Natalie Foster, Shaneen Allen, Katie Pavlich and Nikki Goeser about teaching gun safety to children.

Why do you think teaching gun safety to children is so important? Do you feel there is a negative effect when children haven’t been taught?

WALLER: Teaching gun safety to children is critical and twofold. Children are inquisitive and very impressionable. On the safety side they need to know and respect firearms and learn what to do should they encounter one but also it’s critical that they learn that guns are not bad, but people are bad. We need to pass down our country’s firearms and hunting heritage so the future generations will fight to protect it.

GOLOB: As parents it’s our job to not only protect our children, but to educate them. I can’t say it enough. We teach our children about knives, scissors, electrical outlets and the stove. Why not guns? We cannot hide true firearm …Read the Rest

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