Tue
Sep 2 2025
01:35 pm
Tennessee training MAGAs of tomorrow
By: bizgrrl

Kindergartners across the country are filing into classrooms this fall where they can expect lessons on the alphabet, numbers and patterns. In Tennessee, the state’s 5-year-olds will also learn to identify a trigger, a barrel and a muzzle as they’re introduced to rudimentary gun safety.

All students in Tennessee public and charter schools must begin annual firearm safety lessons this year after the state became the first to pass a law requiring the training. While the guidelines vary by grade, themes for all ages include safe firearms storage, school safety and injury prevention.

"No option to opt out."

Aren't we special?

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fischbobber's picture

Wow.

Submitted by fischbobber on Wed, 2025/09/03 - 1:48am.

Does teaching five year olds how to handle weapons in a time of world-wide turmoil count as traumatizing them? Asking for a friend. He doesn't remember shit like this from the seventies.

Treehouse's picture

Yes

Submitted by Treehouse on Wed, 2025/09/03 - 12:42pm.

"This is the trigger." Ooh, what's that do says the five year old.

fischbobber's picture

A few links, I wrote an essay but the internet ate it.

Submitted by fischbobber on Thu, 2025/09/04 - 10:38am.

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At one point in my life I was a substitute teacher. You can't even keep up with kids under seven, much less oversee weapons in the room. Innocent children will die. And we will train them to do the killing. This can be the issue that takes this state back from Marsha Blackbuirn and the Nazis, but it will take the right person with the right presentation to do it.

fischbobber's picture

That's why.

Submitted by fischbobber on Thu, 2025/09/04 - 3:36pm.
(in reply to fischbobber)

I'd be in 100% behind Randy Boyd. He has built a record of public service that is second to none, has shown vision and civic duty in his private business, and he's smart enough to make sure the proper things for the welfare of the state are pursued. Product without production or market isn't going to work.

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