Flat Stanley and the pistol range

[FuziDave]

there's a children's book called Flat Stanley. and it generally goes along with an activity for kids.

basically, Flat Stanly is a character, printed and colored by a child, and mailed off to someone. the person who receives Flat Stanley, sends back post cards and letters and pictures about his adventures. it's a learning tool to teach geography, and histroy and such. for instance, I took him downtown and took pictures of the JFK memorial. so then the teacher can talk about the histroy part of that.

anyways, I asked the teacher (my cousin) if it was ok to take Flat Stanley to the pistol range. she said "sure".

so i took some pictures there, and the targets afterwards, and then the cleaning the guns.

so during my write up of the adventure to the pistol range, i'm going to stress gun safety. i'm just trying to figure out what points to make. and it needs to be geared to 2nd grade children.

any advice would be appreciated.

[FuziDave]

i was thinking off range. not too many unaccompanied 2nd graders are at the pistol range ;)

i'm not familiar with Eddie Eagle.

[MoJo]

Eddie Eagle is the NRA's children's gun safety character. Like McGruff except for guns.

His rules are:

Stop — to take time to remember the rest of the instructions.
Don't touch — A firearm that is not touched or acted upon by an outside force is highly unlikely to fire, or endanger a person.
Leave the area — By leaving the area the child removes himself/herself from temptation, as well as from the danger that another person might pick up the gun and negligently cause it to fire.
Tell an adult — An adult, if not personally trained in handling firearms, should know enough to seek professional assistance.

Good rules for everyone who is unfamiliar with guns.

[RoyGBiv]

Eddie Eagle is the NRA's children's gun safety character. Like McGruff except for guns.

His rules are:

Stop — to take time to remember the rest of the instructions.
Don't touch — A firearm that is not touched or acted upon by an outside force is highly unlikely to fire, or endanger a person.
Leave the area — By leaving the area the child removes himself/herself from temptation, as well as from the danger that another person might pick up the gun and negligently cause it to fire.
Tell an adult — An adult, if not personally trained in handling firearms, should know enough to seek professional assistance.

Good rules for everyone who is unfamiliar with guns.

Several reasons...
1. This is appropriate for second grade age (7-8). Actually, it's solid advice for anyone not familiar with gun handling.
2. Some of them may have heard it before, having had some prior familiarization via school, scouts, family, church, etc. Using a familiar campaign will be consistent and reinforcing.
3. You're more daring than I, talking about guns to kids without parents permission.

[FuziDave]

3. You're more daring than I, talking about guns to kids without parents permission.

yea. been crossing my mind several times. but the class is in a SMAAAAAAAAAAAALL town in Kansas. VERY rural. lots of hunting/fishing/farming. so I’m thinking it will less controversial than the NY lady flipping out that "gun" was on her kid's spelling test.

Found an Eddie Eagle PSA on youtube. Kinda dated. Jason Priestly pulls out a brick cell phone. ;) will include that in the Stanly blog.

I sent a pre-draft to my cousin the teacher and will follow her lead.

[FuziDave]

for your review.

http://flatstanley.fuzidave.com/gun.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(ignore the typos )

[discoqueen]

This is AWESOME! LOL
Wish I had gone to the range today - I might've seen you and Flat Stanley! And I think you're right about a small town in Kansas being more okay with this than most places. ;)

[Dr. Detroit]

Awesome.

When I first read the title of thread, I thought you might be using Flat Stanley as a target.

Heh.

Dr. Detroit