Gun Control Reform Activism

flamin lib

(14,559 posts) Tue Apr 12, 2016, 09:27 AM Apr 2016

I thought marketing dangerous things to kids was frowned upon . . .

The NRA Says ‘Eddie Eagle,’ Not New Laws, Is the Way to Keep Curious Kids Away from Unsecured Guns
But research has found there’s a big difference between a child being able to talk about safety measures and actually being able to perform them.

http://www.thetrace.org/2016/04/nra-eddie-eagle-child-gun-safety-program-ineffective/

Anybody remember the tabacco companies saying this guy wasn't marketing to kids?

Then there's this:

The NRA Rewrites Fairy Tales to Give Children Guns

“Most of us probably grew up having fairy tales read to us as we drifted to sleep,” an editor’s note reads. “But how many times have you thought back and realized just how, well, grim some of them are? Did any of them ever make your rest a little bit uneasy? Have you ever wondered what those same fairy tales might sound like if the hapless Red Riding Hoods, Hansels and Gretels had been taught about gun safety and how to use firearms?”

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/-w200425

I'm waiting for the sequel in which Hansel accidentally shoots Gretel in the face and the one where Red Riding Hood was cleaning her gun and it went off killing Grandma. Ya' know, like real life?

edit to add this link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017354754
didn't see it before I posted but it's just too good to miss.

The NRA has a waiting period so they can perform a background check before selling an Eddie Eagle Costume AND they maintain a national registry.

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I thought marketing dangerous things to kids was frowned upon . . . (Original Post) flamin lib Apr 2016 OP

don't trust eddie eagle with your children's safety jimmy the one Apr 2016 #1

Valid point! Nobigfifties Apr 2016 #2

Your link doesn't work, but welcome to DU! Rhiannon12866 Apr 2016 #3

jimmy the one

(2,717 posts)

1. don't trust eddie eagle with your children's safety

Reply to flamin lib (Original post)

Wed Apr 13, 2016, 10:40 AM

Apr 2016

FL's link: In the face of the research findings, the gun group {NRA} has spent years discrediting child access prevention laws and pushing the Eddie Eagle program in their stead.
The gun group has claimed that deaths from unintentional shootings are at a record low, making safe storage laws unnecessary. Experts estimate that roughly 110 children died in unintentional shootings from 2005 to 2012. By international standards, that’s a staggering rate: American children younger than 15 are nine times more likely to die by gun accident than children in other developed countries.

Miltenberger and his colleagues tested the Eddie Eagle program on four- and five-year-olds and six- and seven-year-olds. In both studies, they divided the children into three groups: a control group, which received no gun safety training; a group taught with the Eddie Eagle program; and a final group which received behavioral skills training, or BST, a method that when applied to firearms emphasizes repeated rehearsal of gun-discovery situations coupled with praise and corrective feedback.

The results show that children with BST training were the most likely to avoid touching firearms, while those with no training fared the worst. The group of children who had received five sessions of Eddie Eagle scored slightly better than those without, but still fared poorly at gun safety.
The children’s behavior grew even riskier in the in situ tests placing them alone with a firearm. Among the four- to five-year-olds in the study, only one of the 11 children was able to apply the lessons of Eddie Eagle. Similarly, in the second study of six- to seven-year-olds, only two of 15 steered clear of the unsecured gun.

Miltenberg also believes that gun safety protocols should not place the onus on children to make the right decisions. A better system makes adults responsible for keeping firearms out of young hands. Skills training will never be 100 percent reliable, he notes — the safest option is always to store firearms, unloaded, in a locked gun cabinet.
http://www.thetrace.org/2016/04/nra-eddie-eagle-child-gun-safety-program-ineffective/