My wife is an elementary school teacher. She grew up in an anti-gun household. She never liked guns, and thought gun control was a good idea. Then she met me. She now realizes the problems with gun control and even sees the utility (not just the sport factor) of firearms. She still doesn't like guns, but it is more of a "I'm really not that interested in your hobby and you have no money to spend on toys" dislike than anything else. We are going shooting on Saturday with some friends and she has fun but gets bored with the activity after about an hour. I would put her at neutral to slightly pro-gun on some sort of political 'where do you stand' poll. I was very happy to hear when my wife came home and told me that they would be showing their classes Eddie Eagle. I feel that kids should definitely get some sort of safety training, especially when you know that many of the kids are not getting it at home. She pushed to make sure that the kids saw the tape and had the police officer come in and talk to them.
Now the rest of her teaching team...they are decidedly anti-gun. During dear season as my wife was explaining how she was going to be single for the next week one of the other teachers bragged how she doesn't have any guns in her house and never will. When I heard about that I asked my wife is that teacher would put a sign in her front lawn telling the world about that...we laughed.
Another part of her team had a pretty big fight with her fiance' before they got married because she absolutely refused to have any sort of guns in their house together. He conceded and they have no guns (and he has no spine).
The indoctrination of the children in the school is pretty pervasive as well. A police officer came in to talk about bike safety and one of her kids ran over to her to let her know that the cop had a gun, and guns weren't allowed in school. Another kid was working on a "What I want to be when I grow up" worksheet, and wanted to be a cop. When he drew a picture of being a cop, he at first drew a gun and then ON HIS OWN crossed out the picture of the holstered gun on the cop. My wife had nothing to do with it.
Now I know that a lot of people on this board have got to be educators. What is your experience with your colleagues? Any ideas why there would be a possible higher percentage of anti's in education than in other professions?
Now the rest of her teaching team...they are decidedly anti-gun. During dear season as my wife was explaining how she was going to be single for the next week one of the other teachers bragged how she doesn't have any guns in her house and never will. When I heard about that I asked my wife is that teacher would put a sign in her front lawn telling the world about that...we laughed.
Another part of her team had a pretty big fight with her fiance' before they got married because she absolutely refused to have any sort of guns in their house together. He conceded and they have no guns (and he has no spine).
The indoctrination of the children in the school is pretty pervasive as well. A police officer came in to talk about bike safety and one of her kids ran over to her to let her know that the cop had a gun, and guns weren't allowed in school. Another kid was working on a "What I want to be when I grow up" worksheet, and wanted to be a cop. When he drew a picture of being a cop, he at first drew a gun and then ON HIS OWN crossed out the picture of the holstered gun on the cop. My wife had nothing to do with it.
Now I know that a lot of people on this board have got to be educators. What is your experience with your colleagues? Any ideas why there would be a possible higher percentage of anti's in education than in other professions?