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Should public school students be instructed on firearms?
Absolutely, says a group of South Carolina legislators. They have filed two bills in the South Carolina legislature mandating gun safety courses and Second Amendment-related curricula in state schools, a move designed to target zero-tolerance policies on guns in schools.
One bill, filed by State Rep. Alan Clemmons, would establish a three-week educational unit, for all grade levels, devoted to the US Constitution, focusing on the Second Amendment.
The proposed bill would also establish a Second Amendment Awareness Day to be held on Dec. 15 each year in all state schools, complete with a poster or essay contest centered on the theme The Right To Bear Arms: One American Right Protecting All Others.
Rep. Clemmons told South Carolina's The Greenville News that he was inspired to create the bill after hearing the story of a student who was arrested at school over a fictional essay he wrote in which he talked about buying a gun to kill a neighbors pet dinosaur.
That sort of zero-tolerance attitude towards guns in schools, Clemmons told a local South Carolina paper, is undermining knowledge of, and respect for, the Second Amendment.In this case, it squelched a students First Amendment rights, in responding to an assignment, to talk about the Second Amendment, Clemmonstold The Greenville News. We are giving short shrift to the one amendment that protects all others.
Gun rights and safety education has traditionally not been the purview of public schools, with incidents like the school shooting at Newtown, Conn., hardening many parents' resolve against firearm-related curricula. But proponents argue that the best way to counter school shootings and inappropriate gun use is education.Nonetheless, the bill is controversial.
For starters, its proposed "Second Amendment Awareness Day" is scheduled for Dec. 15, which happens to be the day after the anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting, in which a lone gunman fatally shot 20 students and six adults at a Newtown elementary school. Clemmons has said the date is a coincidence and he is open to other dates.
Another point of contention is a clause requiring new gun- and Second Amendment-related curriculum be either created or approved by the National Rifle Association, a gun advocacy group.
Another bill, proposed in the state Senate by Sen. Lee Bright, would allow South Carolina schools to offer elective courses on gun safety, gun rights, and marksmanship. If passed, the bill would allow schools to bus students off-campus to gun ranges, where they would learn about gun safety as well as how to use guns.
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By Lara Rolo lmrolo@sbgtv.com
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) -- An Horry County lawmaker wants to change the script in South Carolina schools and introduce more education specific to Second Amendment rights.
Rep. Alan Clemmons pre-filed a bill in December that would require three weeks of education specific to the Second Amendment.
Clemmons is not the only one who has ideas to change the state's zero tolerance police on teaching guns in schools. Rep. Lee Bright also has introduced a bill that would offer gun safety and marksmanship as an elective.
What Clemmons wants to emphasize is that these curricular changes would be optional to parents and students across the state.
"Silence is not the answer. Education is the answer," he said.
Clemmons said the idea came to him when he heard about the Summerville High School student arrested and suspended for writing a story about killing a dinosaur.
The student was responding to a classroom assignment and was merely expressing his freedom of speech, Clemmons said.
The state representative's rationale doesn't quite make sense to Patrick Hayes, though.
"Sounds like he's looking for a First Amendment Day, which would be something else we could discuss -- but again picking out one amendment and giving it a day -- I can't understand the logic behind it."
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