{"id":2849,"date":"2024-01-21T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2024-01-21T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:09:07","slug":"business-insider-very-dangerous-to-indoctrinate-young-americans-that-they-can-lawfully-possess-a-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2849","title":{"rendered":"Business Insider: Very Dangerous to &#8216;Indoctrinate&#8217; Young Americans That They Can Lawfully Possess a Firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch.jpg\" data-caption=\"GSL Defense Training image by Boch.\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Young-people-and-guns-GSLDT-photo-by-Boch.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Young people and guns GSLDT photo by Boch\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSL Defense Training image by Boch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Get woke, go broke and learn to code. Such is the hard lesson over at Sports Illustrated after the announcement that all of their writers will soon become unemployed and the publication\u2019s future remains \u201cuncertain.\u201d \u00a0Enter <em>Business Insider.\u00a0 <\/em>nstead of writing about issues germane to commerce and ways to operate businesses more effectively and profitably, BI\u2019s crack team of future coders have gone another direction.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest pearl-clutching screed laments the dangers of teaching America\u2019s young people that they have the God-given right to own a gun for lawful purposes, including self-defense.\u00a0 Why, it\u2019s almost as if BI interns took a press release from the \u201cBrady\u201d gun control org and decided to post it as headline news on their website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shudder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-nra-wants-your-kindergartener-kid-to-love-guns-2024-1\"><em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-headline \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>The NRA wants your kid to love guns: programs promote 2nd Amendment absolutism to Kindergarteners on up<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>For the National Rifle Association, no American is too young to join in their absolutist defense of the Second Amendment \u2014 and that includes Kindergarteners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nra-throws-wayne-lapierre-under-bus-in-resignation-course-correction-2024-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nra-throws-wayne-lapierre-under-bus-in-resignation-course-correction-2024-1\" data-uri=\"b26598b0be77c6d1b00a62e11d0fb439\">the NRA corruption trial began in Manhattan<\/a>\u00a0this month, the gun-rights lobby started accepting submissions from children grades K-12 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nradefensefund.org\/essay-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.nradefensefund.org\/essay-contest\/\" data-uri=\"f878256551f8297268acb3046307ef48\">its 2024 \u201cWhat the Second Amendment Means To You\u201d youth essay contest.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The annual contest encourages children to engage in \u201cscholarly research on the Second Amendment as well as reflect on how the Second Amendment and other Constitutional rights affect their daily lives,\u201d as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrablog.com\/articles\/2016\/4\/civil-rights-defense-fund-essay-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.nrablog.com\/articles\/2016\/4\/civil-rights-defense-fund-essay-contest\" data-uri=\"2317fa43b36d8ce6d6f52ca02b768fba\">the gun lobby described it in a 2016 blog.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Leaving aside the oddness of asking the youngest of grade-schoolers how the Constitutional right to bear arms affects them personally, the contest raises alarms for gun-control advocates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photos-show-young-kids-handling-guns-nra-annual-conference-2023-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photos-show-young-kids-handling-guns-nra-annual-conference-2023-4\" data-uri=\"79c2b4d93dca7199007e0749566d4a86\">Gun violence remains the number one cause of death for children,<\/a>\u00a0according to the CDC. So there\u2019s something almost macabre in enlisting children in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20240103\/a-big-year-for-the-second-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"60\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20240103\/a-big-year-for-the-second-amendment\" data-uri=\"4cba9f3b686dc26d394c266239d9ef90\">NRA mission to restrict gun control<\/a>, said Kris Brown, president of the gun violence prevention group Brady.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cEight kids a day are killed or injured by guns in the home,\u201d said Brown, calling that grim statistic \u201cuniquely American.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s very dangerous for younger Americans to be indoctrinated with the viewpoint that the Second Amendment allows every American to lawfully possess a firearm,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The full-throated attack on educating America\u2019s young people on the rights the Constitution protects from statists and tyrants should shock us all. But knowledge about running businesses successfully and profitably doesn\u2019t seem deep among the writers there.<\/p>\n<p>After all, on the homepage visitors are treated with articles on how the world\u2019s richest man can\u2019t possibly succeed without woke advertisers (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/advertisers-left-x-crypto-ai-undressing-apps-2024-1\">X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI \u2018undressing\u2019 apps, users say after Musk\u2019s outburst<\/a>\u201c) and how the ultrawealthy don\u2019t like waiting for things in Davos (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wealthy-davos-attendees-annoyed-waiting-long-lines-report-2024-1\">Even the ultrawealthy had to wait in long lines at Davos \u2014 and they were reportedly annoyed about it\u201d<\/a>).\u00a0 The closest they come to business is a pair of stories lamenting how people are opposed to more \u201cuniversal basic income\u201d (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/texas-paul-bettencourt-guaranteed-basic-income-ubi-uplift-harris-houston-2024-1\">Texas senator says the plan to give poor residents a $500 guaranteed basic income is unconstitutional<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iowa-republicans-block-guaranteed-basic-income-socialism-steroids-ubi-poverty-2024-1\">GOP lawmakers in Iowa seek to block guaranteed basic income programs, calling them \u2018insane<\/a>\u2018\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and what else does the nation\u2019s most-evil, longest-running civil rights organization do that <em>BI<\/em> and their friends at Brady find so objection?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The NRA offers other contests and scholarships for children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The group sponsors cash prizes of up to $1,000 for first-through-12th graders\u00a0who create artwork portraying \u201cany North American game bird or animal\u00a0that may be legally hunted or trapped.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>High schoolers can apply for an all-expense-paid\u00a0summer Youth Education Summit\u00a0in Washington, DC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The gun lobby also offers free training programs through\u00a0an online education course\u00a0in several states; the New Mexico and Alabama program takes kids 10 and up. In Texas and Kentucky, it\u2019s 9 and up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prizes for artwork and free gun safety training programs!\u00a0 Oh no!\u00a0 That all needs to stop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/business-insider-very-dangerous-to-indoctrinate-young-americans-that-they-can-lawfully-possess-a-firearm\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSL Defense Training image by Boch. Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Get woke, go broke and learn to code. Such is the hard lesson over at Sports Illustrated after the announcement that all of their writers will soon become unemployed and the publication\u2019s future remains \u201cuncertain.\u201d \u00a0Enter Business Insider.\u00a0 nstead of writing about issues germane to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}