(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A Wyoming elementary school has decided to include a gun safety course as a part of its physical education program, the Western Journal reported.
Fifth and Sixth grade students in Hot Springs County, Wyoming were the first to undergo the new program. Due to liability concerns, the school used air rifles instead of real rifles.
According to the school’s Facebook page, “Mr. Deromedi’s 5/6th PE classes are working on their marksmanship with air rifles!” the post stated. “All students passed their safety test and have been sharpening their skills.”
The post was shared over 60,000 times and received more than 6000 comments.
It has since been made private or has been removed. Photos of the post did reappear online later.
As usual, the Facebook comment section was full of diverse opinions.
“Training the next school shooter young and providing the guns on campus nice,” one Facebook user wrote.
A leftist complained in the comment section that the Wyoming school is training future school shooters.
They are “literally raising possible school shooters.” she said.
“Thankful that the school district sees this as important!” another commenter wrote. “Gun safety and training is excellent! Keep up the good work!”
Many others expressed that they wished that they had received such training as school-aged children, especially teachers who aspire for a safer teaching environment.
“This is fantastic! I’m a public school teacher and wish my school district would do this here in Pennsylvania! As a firearms instructor outside of school I’d be willing to help teach this too,” one comment reads.
In the state of Wyoming, this type of training is perfectly within the law.
“The district must also establish training requirements, curricula, and instructor qualifications, subject to approval by local law enforcement,” the law reads.
Gun training safety has to include “at least 16 hours of live fire handgun training” and eight hours of “scenario-based training using nonlethal training,” firearms and ammunition.
