I've said this for years.

Also Veterans teach beginning in Kindergarten firearm awareness, respect, safety. Stair step teaching to proficiency.

By second, third grade the children are fully capable of handling and firing laser, dart, pellet guns for target practice.

Train a generation, change the mindset and this idiocy will be history.

Proverbs 22:6
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."