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*Snort* There are some 20 states in the US where the teachers (if not all the school employees) are allowed, if not encouraged, to get training, obtain CCW permits, and carry concealed firearms on school grounds. These are also states where the schools can teach “Riflery” (gun-safety and gun-competence) to the students and there are JROTC programs — and have been for often many years if not decades. So far there has not been one single case of a teacher shooting a student. Why should we expect any change in the near future?

First, let’s include the graphic:As a public school teacher, a student who went to public school during that time, and a firearms instructor, I have to say that I find such a claim ludicrous. There has never been anything standardized when it comes to education in the United States. Every state has its own department of education. Many states have been against firearms as an unofficial policy for decades.I think what the quote in question was intended to convey was the idea that we, as a nation, have slowly turned against firearms ownership since the time in question. Though I doubt that many (if any) elementary schools included firearms as part of their curriculum, I know that we didn't always have this pervasive fear of guns being anywhere near schools. One of my fellow teachers recall keeping a gun in his vehicle so that he could go hunting right after school. People at my local gun range remember such things as bringing a rifle to school and leaving it with their home room teachers. Many also recall making stocks in wood shop or learning some basic gunsmithing in their machine shop.I was recently surprised to learn that most of the high schools in my local area have affiliated shooting teams. Several shoot trap. One has a small-bore junior Olympics team. These students frequently get full ride scholarships to the University of Nevada at Reno for their participation in these sports.I didn't touch a gun until my 20s. Perhaps his school had this, so he figured it was the norm. A lot of kids take a hunter safety course, so it isn’t unbelievable that he took just such a course. Students in high school who took JROTC or were training to be in some kind of “Explorers” program were likely given firearms training. In fact, a contingent from my school’s JROTC program came up to my local club to get training on .22s and M1 Garands.In closing, without having the chance to interview him, I can only conclude that he either made it up or mistook his experience for being the norm. It being on television, I would hope it was the latter.

I can’t be absolutely positive, but I don’t believe the NRA has donated association funds to victims. NRA officials and members may have made personal donations, but that would not be considered an official NRA donation.In fairness, I don’t recall any of the major gun control groups making donations to victims, either. Michael Bloomberg, the primary funding source for Everytown for Gun Safety, may have made personal donations but I don’t have any information about them.Both groups may offer or arrange services for victims, such as legal help for lawsuits. Some law firms do offer pro bono services for them.The anger over the NRA’s failure to donate money is similar to the anger over the NRA’s “failure” to take ownership for mass shootings.There are two valid objections to that anger.First, why would the NRA be expected to donate money to victims or need to feel at all responsible? The NRA did not encourage or enable a shooter to commit their crimes. One might as well expect the American Automobile Association to accept responsibility for James Fields’ driving his car into a crowd in Charlottesville or for Lakeisha Holloway repeated running her car onto a crowded sidewalk in Las Vegas.Second, if the NRA gave money to one group of victims, it would be expected to provide funds for all groups of victims. For example, if the NRA donated to victims of the Sutherland Springs shootings, perhaps in recognition of NRA member Stephen Williford’s acts in stopping Devin Kelley’s spree, there would be an uproar because the NRA didn’t donate to victims of every mass shooting and killing spree dating back to 1871, when the NRA was founded.The NRA knows full well that those who despise it are going to rail against everything it does.For example, the NRA Foundation, which has no political stance at all, gave a $10,000 grant to the JROTC program at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The money was used to refurbish the school’s air rifle range and purchase new equipment. Since Nikolas Cruz was a member of the JROTC rifle team, the media and social media did its best to persuade people that the NRA Foundation had, in essence, provided the grant specifically to enable Cruz to be a better killer.This way lies madness. The same madness that expects the NRA to give money to victims or to take responsibility for mass shootings.