As much as I hate responding to rhetoric with rhetoric, the simple fact of the matter is that there are guns, and if we're being honest with ourselves, there al

As much as I hate responding to rhetoric with rhetoric, the simple fact of the matter is that there are guns, and if we're being honest with ourselves, there always will be. The number of them might wax or wane, but the very idea of a gun will not be extinguished until and unless something more powerful, and that is also dirt simple to manufacture in a garage, replaces it. NRA's Eddie Eagle program doesn't teach kids how to become expert marksmen behind their parents' backs. It teaches kids that guns are dangerous, and if one is found, it teaches them to treat it as dangerous, to notify their parents or another adult, etc... Pretending that guns don't exist, or that a child will never encounter one is, in my view, more akin to practicing abstinence to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Sure, it's a means to an end, and in a vacuum, abstinence is very, very effective... but when we realize that we're not living in a vacuum, and that the world we live in has guns in it, as well as people with which you might be sexually attracted, in both cases, education is a much more effective tool than unrealistic optimism.