According to the Washington Post (WP) on the 2nd, all public schools and state-funded education facilities in Tennessee will have to provide gun safety education starting this fall.
This is because Tennessee’s legislature was the first in the country to enact legislation last year that would make gun safety education mandatory.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), guns are the leading cause of child and adolescent deaths in the United States, and in Tennessee, gun-related child deaths were 37% higher than the national average in 2022.
Along with Tennessee, Utah and Arkansas have enacted similar laws.
Before that, some schools had decades of gun safety education, but these three states are the first to make it mandatory statewide.
The training consists of topics such as safe storage of firearms, school safety, and injury prevention, and as a result, 5-year-old kindergarteners to high school seniors will learn to distinguish between the trigger, the gun and the gun’s beak, the Washington Post said.
SAM KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
