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Should public schools teach how to use guns? Yes, say South Carolina legislators

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Should public school students be instructed on firearms?

Absolutely, says a group of South Carolina legislators. They have filed two bills in the South Carolina legislature mandating gun safety courses and Second Amendment-related curricula in state schools, a move designed to target zero-tolerance policies on guns in schools.

One bill, filed by State Rep. Alan Clemmons, would establish a three-week educational unit, for all grade levels, devoted to the US Constitution, focusing on the Second Amendment.

The proposed bill would also establish a Second Amendment Awareness Day to be held on Dec. 15 each year in all state schools, complete with a poster or essay contest centered on the theme The Right To Bear Arms: One American Right Protecting All Others.

Rep. Clemmons told South Carolina's The Greenville News that he was inspired to create the bill after hearing the story of a student who was arrested at school over a fictional essay he wrote in which he talked about buying a gun to kill a neighbors pet dinosaur.

That sort of zero-tolerance attitude towards guns in schools, Clemmons told a local South Carolina paper, is undermining knowledge of, and respect for, the Second Amendment.In this case, it squelched a students First Amendment rights, in responding to an assignment, to talk about the Second Amendment, Clemmonstold The Greenville News. We are giving short shrift to the one amendment that protects all others.

Gun rights and safety education has traditionally not been the purview of public schools, with incidents like the school shooting at Newtown, Conn., hardening many parents' resolve against firearm-related curricula. But proponents argue that the best way to counter school shootings and inappropriate gun use is education.Nonetheless, the bill is controversial.

For starters, its proposed "Second Amendment Awareness Day" is scheduled for Dec. 15, which happens to be the day after the anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting, in which a lone gunman fatally shot 20 students and six adults at a Newtown elementary school. Clemmons has said the date is a coincidence and he is open to other dates.

Another point of contention is a clause requiring new gun- and Second Amendment-related curriculum be either created or approved by the National Rifle Association, a gun advocacy group.

Another bill, proposed in the state Senate by Sen. Lee Bright, would allow South Carolina schools to offer elective courses on gun safety, gun rights, and marksmanship. If passed, the bill would allow schools to bus students off-campus to gun ranges, where they would learn about gun safety as well as how to use guns.

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Lawmaker wants time set aside in schools for Second Amendment lessons

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) -- An Horry County lawmaker wants to change the script in South Carolina schools and introduce more education specific to Second Amendment rights.

Rep. Alan Clemmons pre-filed a bill in December that would require three weeks of education specific to the Second Amendment.

Clemmons is not the only one who has ideas to change the state's zero tolerance police on teaching guns in schools. Rep. Lee Bright also has introduced a bill that would offer gun safety and marksmanship as an elective.

What Clemmons wants to emphasize is that these curricular changes would be optional to parents and students across the state.

"Silence is not the answer. Education is the answer," he said.

Clemmons said the idea came to him when he heard about the Summerville High School student arrested and suspended for writing a story about killing a dinosaur.

The student was responding to a classroom assignment and was merely expressing his freedom of speech, Clemmons said.

The state representative's rationale doesn't quite make sense to Patrick Hayes, though.

"Sounds like he's looking for a First Amendment Day, which would be something else we could discuss -- but again picking out one amendment and giving it a day -- I can't understand the logic behind it."

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State Representative rallies for the study of the Right to Bear Arms in the classroom

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The right to bear arms could soon be a three-week mandatory part of your child's schoolwork if one state legislator has his way.

State Representative Alan Clemmons, who represents district 107, wants a stronger emphasis to be placed on the Second Amendment in schools across the state. He prefiled the Second Amendment Education Act ahead of the General Assembly returning to session this month.

"The second amendment applies to every American citizen," said Clemmons. "It is a personal right to bear arms for the sake of defending oneself if the need should arise."

That is a constitutional right Clemmons wants students to study and understand.

"The discussion should be a scholarly discussion about the history of the second amendment, why was it important to our fathers, why was it so important that it was included in the bill of rights., and how the second amendment folds into modern society," Clemmons said of what he thinks should be implemented in the classroom.

The Second Amendment Education Act would require a portion of South Carolina's mandated study of the U.S. Constitution in high school be devoted to study of the Second Amendment. Clemmons advocates for roughly three weeks of study dedicated to the constitutional right.

Rep. Clemmons filed the bill in responsive to Zero Tolerance policies in place at schools across the state to stop students from bringing guns on campus. According to Clemmons, over time those policies have turned into an anti-Second Amendment shut-down.

"That policy in my mind is subjecting the rising generation to the mindset of the instrument, the firearm, is evil regardless of the hand that the firearm is in," explained Clemmons.

Another bill prefiled ahead of legislators return aims at taking children out of the classroom and into the gun range for a semester-long course on firearm safety.

Under the bill filed by Senator Lee Bright, students would be given the option to take the course as an elective.

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Proposed bill wants to bring 2nd Amendment into the classroom

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GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) -

Lawmakers in South Carolina will soon discuss whether students across the state should focus extra attention learning about the Second Amendment and right to bear arms.

The bill's sponsors, including Greenville County Rep. Garry R. Smith, said the Second Amendment is the most important one and it needs to be promoted.

Others in the community, like Spartanburg licensed clinical social worker, Barry Keith, are concerned that mandating school curriculum, and overemphasizing guns, could cause confusion for kids.

The Second Amendment Education Act of 2015 would designate a day for school kids to recognize the amendment.

The bill would require public schools to "conduct poster or essay contests" about the second amendment and honor state winners.

It demands students in elementary, middle, and high school, receive Second Amendment lessons "at least three consecutive weeks in one grading period in each academic year," and recommends that the National Rifle Association (NRA) create the curriculum.

In these early stages, Rep. Smith knows the bill will be in for a lot of discussion and changes, but believes the Founding Fathers put the right to bear arms as number two on the Bill of Rights, because it helps protect all the other rights.

Keith said after hearing about other school shootings, he's dealt with children in Spartanburg with PTSD, or some who are scared to go to school.

He's concerned that a bill mandating three weeks of discussion about the second amendment would increase fear in students, especially young ones.

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Bill to bring second amendment education to classrooms

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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - A proposed bill is looking to change the zero-tolerance policy South Carolina schools have toward guns by requiring specific second amendment curriculum.

"The second amendment should be freely debated in schools and instead the second amendment is being squelched in our schools," said Rep. Alan Clemmons, R - Horry County.

Rep. Clemmons said he first thought of the idea after hearing about the Summerville student who was punished for turning in a fictional story about shooting his neighbor's dinosaur.

The Second Amendment Education Act of 2015 would give students the opportunity for reasonable expression of the second amendment at school without fear of punishment.

"If we let that go unchecked, the second amendment will cease being a freedom enjoyed under the United States Constitution," Rep. Clemmons said.

Three weeks of a high school student's coursework on the Constitution would be dedicated to learning about why the right to bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights.

The state superintendent of education would be responsible for developing the three-week high school curriculum using the National Rifle Association as a resource.

Clemmons is also proposing making December 15 "Second Amendment Awareness Day" for students at all grade levels. Students would be encouraged to submit essays and posters highlighting the second amendment to the General Assembly Sportsman's Caucus to judge.

"At one point we just got so afraid of anything that had the word gun in it that we pulled it away from children, and I think it's time that we get back into it and bring it back," said Robert Battista, owner of 707 Gun Shop in Socastee.

However, some say what schools really need is more gun safety education rather than spending classroom time on solely the second amendment and its history.

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Guns Are Meant To Kill! Fans Furious After Duggar Family Posts Photo Of Son Jedidah, 16, Holding Large Shotgun

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The right-wing Duggar family has always strongly supported the second amendment. In June, married daughter Jessa, 22, was even photographed holding an automatic rifle.

But now many fans think the Christian fundamentalists have taken their gun love too far. Last week, parents Jim Bob and Michelle posted a picture of young son Jedidiah, who just turned 16 on December 30, proudly wielding a 12 gauge shotgun on Christmas morning to their official Facebook page and commenters couldnt believe their eyes.

Worst present ever. I dont care how much gun safety they teach their kids, said Linda Lawless. All it takes is one time of not locking it up properly for one of the dozens of curious young kids in that house to get a hold of it and have an accident.

Dont understand why a Christian family who values life would want to own devices that were specifically designed to destroy it.

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How can they give their child a gun yet cannot allow people to be who they are, fumed Helen Riley, referring to the Duggars fight against same-sex marriage. Guns are meant to kill.

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Other posters defended the 19 Kids And Counting parents decision to give their teen son a weapon.

Guns are for survival and protection, argued Kelly Woodrow James. It is our God given right to bare arms. There is nothing wrong with giving a child a gun as long as the responsibility of owning the gun is taught as well.

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Family files civil suit over sword-wielding man killed by police in September

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The family of a sword-wielding man who was shot to death by police have filed a civil suit against officers from the Utah city where he was killed in September.

Darrien Hunt, 22, was killed by police officers in Saratoga Springs, Utah, over three months ago. Prosecutors said Hunt had "abruptly and without any apparent provocation" lunged at two officers with a "samurai-type sword," and that the resultant shooting was justified. An autopsy report showed Hunt had been shot six times, at least once in the back.

Attorneys representing the Hunt family have previously contended the officers' account, noting witnesses who said Hunt had been running away at the time of the shooting. Susan Hunt, mother of the deceased, told KSL that her son was killed because he was black.

Hunt family attorney Robert Sykes announced Friday a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking $2 million in damages from the city of Saratoga Springs and the two officers involved in the shooting. The lawsuit alleges that Cpl. Matt Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson violated Hunt's Second Amendment rights, which allowed him to carry the sword.

"They demanded that he give up his sword -- they had no right to do that. He was causing no harm," Sykes said. "They provoked an incident with this peaceful man."

The suit also accuses the officers of shooting Hunt in the back while he fled and of using excessive force.

Susan Hunt said her son had been in high spirits the day of his death and that he bought the dull replica sword to impress managers at a Panda Express, where he hoped to get a job.

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Lawsuit: Armed Utah man killed by police was protected under Second Amendment

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Hunt's mother says her son was peacefully exercising his Second Amendment rights when he was killed. (Credit: CNN)

Hunt's mother says her son was peacefully exercising his Second Amendment rights when he was killed. (Credit: CNN)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah The family of a sword-carrying man who was killed in September has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and the two officers who shot him.

Darrien Hunt, 22, was shot to death while carrying a 40-inch samurai-type sword.

Prosecutors said that Hunt lunged at two officers, Cpl. Matt Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson and their actions were reasonable. The medical examiners autopsy report determined Hunt was shot six times, once in the back.

The lawsuit alleges that under the Second Amendment, Hunt had a right to carry the sword and the two officers did not have a right to demand that he surrender.

The suit contends that Hunt was shot while he was fleeing, that police used excessive force and that the officers actions manifested malicious, reckless, and callous indifference to the rights and very life of Darrien Hunt.

They demanded that he give up his sword they had no right to do that. He was causing no harm, family attorney Robert Sykes said. They provoked an incident with this peaceful man.

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At a press conference on Friday, Sykes said the family will ask for more than $2 million in damages.

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South Carolina law makers pushing for more gun education

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Sunday, December 28th, 2014

AIKEN, SC (WRDW)- Kids already have English,science, and history class, but South Carolina lawmakers want to add one more.

A right to bear arms, a right some South Carolina law makers don't want students to forget.

"People say that's the amendment that helps keep all others," said owner of Aiken Gun Rack Range, Chuck Scott.

A bill hitting the house floor at the first of the year, could make your kids a lot more gun savvy. The bill would designate December 15th second amendment awareness day.

"I think a second amendment day is a great thing. It's very cool," said Scott.

It's not just one day devoted to gun rights, but three weeks. The NRA will develop the curriculum.

"Kids need to know what it's about and why it's so important and that's what sets us apart from other countries," said Scott.

After they learn about the second amendment they may want to pick a gun and learn to shoot. One bill will allow them to do that at school. It will create a marksmanship class and, South Carolina gun safety program.

"The earlier kids learn to be safe and have proper instruction the safer they're going to be and the less accidents they're going to have," said Scott.

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