Eddie Eagle

The NRA's Eddie Eagle will soon be offering his brand of gun-safety lessons to the Virgina schoolchildren. A new law will require Virginia's education department to come up with a gun-safety curriculum for public elementary schools that incorporates guidelines from the NRA.
The law allows local school divisions to offer gun-safety education to pupils in kindergarten through fifth grade. While each school board can decide whether to offer it, those that do must use the state curriculum -- which will include rules used by the NRA's Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program.
NRA's Eddie Eagle website says that the program's goal "isn't to teach whether guns are good or bad, but rather to promote the protection and safety of children."
The Eddie Eagle mascot advises children: "If you see a gun: STOP! Don't Touch. Leave the Area. Tell an Adult."
Eddie Eagle does not promote firearm ownership or use and firearms are never used in the program, the website says.
I think Illinois should move in the same direction, even though proper gun saftey training starts at home, we should also teach children the rules of guns the same way we teach them about fire, strangers, and other safety issues.