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Show An Open Letter "GUN SAFETY THROUGH EDUCATION" Dear Citizen: How many times have you seen mal-practice of gun safety in the hunting field and wished there were a way to stop it? There is a way. The Lions Club of Duchesne is sponsoring a course in Junior Hunters' Safety under the direction direc-tion of the National Rifle Association. Associa-tion. Classes sart Nov. 4 for 12 to 16 year-old youths. Registration is now going on at Kohl's Store Sporting Goods department, de-partment, with no cost for the course. Education in firearms and their use in hunting on a broad scale as a means of making hunting safer is relatively new. Its reception recep-tion by professional educators, conservation leaders, and fish and game law enforcement personnel, is indicative of a constructive public pub-lic attitude toward firearms training. train-ing. This enthusiasm for the NRA Hunters' Safety Training program shown by hunters, rod and gun clubs, and shooting organizations who voluntarily are giving instructions instruc-tions is evidence of an awareness of its potential contributions not only toward making hunting safer, but also in improving the conduct of hunters afield. Twenty hunter safety bills were introduced in the legislatures of 12 states during the first six months of this year. The number of hunters hunt-ers and potential' hunters who have been trained in hunting technique tech-nique so far is infinitisimally small when compared to the number of persons who are annually licensed to hunt. . The number who may be trained in the future is limited to the number of certified instructors. The loss of a single hunter's life through negligence is too much when the fatality could have been so easily avoided. Caution and competence through education are indeed a small price to pay for the preservation of a life or the saving of a limb. Such is the foundation stone of all our SAFETY GUN SAFETY, through Hunters' Safety, Through Education. Thank you, citizens for your attention. at-tention. Very truly yours, Richard Johnstun, Certified Instructor National Rifle Assn. |