Übergeek 바둑이: We've already done something like that, not with guns but with something else. Schools were required (I don't know if they still are) to teach youngers about sex and in some districts even taught how to go about it, and to stop admonishing them to "keep it in their pants". Look at what that has led to.

The fact alone that kids have percieved this as permission to go on unintentional baby making missions has been enough to disrupt lives, and in many instances have killed people through the transmission of STDs. And you are worried about people knowing how to handle a gun? Knowing how to handle guns would reduce the number of accidental deaths, which is still far less than the number of people who have contracted life threatening STDs.

What has happened to a sense of balance, when not knowing about rights and responsibilities of gun ownership is a good thing, but expecting kids to act responsibly is a bad thing?