HB1122

I refuse to touch a gun, and I would be appalled if my child had mandatory training on a firearm! People in NH can choose to hunt, but under no circumstances should training be mandatory. Wildlife hunting is offensive to many.

I'm not opposed to hunter education or conservation, but HB 1122 reads like a post-secondary or community education course, not a statewide mandate that should fall into the k-12 curriculum. These topics already exist in better, opt-in settings. This bill is inexpedient to legislate, and at best should be referred to Fish and Game and Marine Resources because they have the subject-matter expertise to evaluate hunting and wildlife education on its own merits, without forcing it into a K-12 curriculum.

This bill usurps parental control.

If parents want their children trained to use firearms they can but you shouldn't make it mandatory education.

Introducing the gun culture in schools!

This does not belong in the public schools. This is a family matter.

This is not the responsibility of children.

Firearm safety is the responsibility of adults, not kids. New Hampshire should require safety training before all gun purchases, not burden children with the responsibility. Public health studies show existing programs to be ineffective for teaching children safety skills to reduce gun play.

Totally absurd waste of school time. While we should be encouraging gun safety, we should not require students to learn about hunting and wildlife "management" in order to graduate!!!

This bill is too expansive in what it requires to be taught to all high school students. There are other places for students to learn about hunting and firearms. Not all students will want to hunt and handle guns.

Firearm safety is the responsibility of adults, not kids. Put some common sense gun legislation in front of us for adults and I would approve. It is not up to kids to pick up the slack for us, legislators owe it to constituents to keep us safe by putting the responsibility where it belongs - on adults.

Wrong institution to teach this stuff. There are other better places. ITL this bill.

There is no reason that all high school students in the state of New Hampshire should be required to learn about "hunting, wildlife management, and responsible firearms usage". This should be something that parents are teaching their children. This would be a waste of time and resources. There should be information provided about who can provide this training if students are interested in it, but it should not be required to be learned by all students.

Families should not have their children required to learn about hunting and wildlife management and firearms use if they do not want to. Not all families, and not all kids, are comfortable with firearms in general. This should be a decision left up to the families and their children based on an individual basis.

NH should require safety training before all gun purchases. This is not the responsibility of our kids.

With so much to learn these days, this is best handled on an extracurricular basis for those with an interest.

I recently retired after being a public school teacher in Nh for over 39 years. I oppose this bill. Children do not need exposure to more gun issues in school. If I may, perhaps they could use more mental health supports.

This is laughable -- what century do you think we are living in? We no longer hunt for our food. There are so many other valuable skills that kids need to learn to function in the current society. Hunting is not one of them.

There are plenty of programs here in New Hampshire where parents can take their children to learn about hunting, firearms, etc. School is not the place.

We should be building a better world where kindness a d empathy matter more than pushing gun culture.

While the education of wildlife conservation in conjunction with NH Fish and Game is a worthwhile goal, the inclusion of hunting and firearm instruction is reckless. There are may ways of promoting conservation that do involve teaching teenagers to fire guns.

This is yet another bill aimed at taking away the rights of NH parents to make decisions regarding our children. Again, this is not relevant to general education, and not needed to become a successful member of society and have a successful career. My understanding is there is no funding to be set aside and given to school districts to support this education either, leaving towns once again having to raise taxes to fund an unnecessary and unsupported initiative. No thank you.

As a former educator and grandmother of 7, I vehemently oppose this bill. Our children need to learn how to read and write efficiently. They need to learn math, science, and social studies. It is not the job of the State to teach our kids gun safety. It is the job of the parents. Stay out of parenting.