Teaching gun defense to kids?

[shesulsa]

Do you teach gun defense to children under the age of 13? Why/why not?

 

[KenpoTex]

Our system has gun-defense techniques; however, we don't teach them to the kids. For that matter, we don't teach them a lot of the "nastier" stuff. I've actually never discussed this with my head instructor but I would imagine that the reason is that kids, even more so than adults should be focused solely on escape. Weapons disarms are extremely risky even for an adult, I honestly don't think kids under 13 would even be physically capable of taking a gun away from someone. Their best bet would be to run like hell and scream their head off.

just my $0.02

 

[MJS]

There are gun defenses in Kenpo, but they're usually not taught until the upper ranks. That being said, IMHO, I feel that there are more important things for the kids to learn, prior to a gun defense.

Mike

 

[Hand Sword]

I would agree. Just getting the basics down, and using them in the forms and fighting combo's is hard enough. Their usually awkward, with their bodies growing faster than the coordination can catch up. I feel one should deal with facing weapons when they can move very well.

 

[Drac]

I feel that there are more important things for the kids to learn, prior to a gun defense.Mike

I agree.Teaching children firearm safety( keep reading) meaning not to play with them or pick up on they find on the streets and to notify an adult if they locate one would be better...

 

[terryl965]

It would depend on the child and how well they can handle everything, like my oldest who is going to be turning 12 yes he has been training for the last nine years, now would I for the average kid being with me for only a month no, so the question needs to be a little more relaxe with exception to every rule.
Terry

 

[Hand Sword]

I guess it's all relative. If a student has been at it for a while and you have trust in them, you could teach them. Maybe all kids should be taught gun safety lessons.

 

[still learning]

Hello, For our School the answer is NO to kids under 13 years old. In the junior and adult class this is cover. Same for knife defense too.

Club defense is cover with the peewee classes 5-13 years old. The basic and we keep it simple for them. We stress RUNNING AWAY....Aloha

 

[bushidomartialarts]

Teaching children firearm safety( keep reading) meaning not to play with them or pick up on they find on the streets and to notify an adult if they locate one would be better...

That is a really great point. Anybody out there go to a school that does that? I'm gonna talk with my kids program people about it on Monday.

I'm excited by the idea and embarassed it hadn't thought of it. Well done.