Certainly different...

[Wing Nut]

You know, looking at this makes me think.  We're constantly seeing stuff on the news about how countries we dislike indoctrinate their children to hate America or oare being trained to be terrorists or whatever.  What impression would someone in an Islamic country take away from this?  They have computers in Iran too.  American youth being trained to kill Muslims...

Good message to be sending to the world.

[Travis]

I definitely have to agree with Kevin on this.

Although I do think that children need to be taught to respect guns, not fear them, this is not teaching them that.  The "guns" in this instance are nothing close to what they would experience in real life.  If one of those CHILDREN ( ) gets it into their head to have a little fun with one of those rifles, they'll minorly inconvenience one of their friends, whereas with a real weapon, things would go a bit different.

They're being indoctrinated with tactics that are unnecessary for a teenager to know.  Is there ANY way that learning how to do these things will benefit them in their day-to-day lives?  And how many of them are actually going to go on to become law enforcement officers?  Surely not all of them.

And as Kevin was saying, this does NOT look good to any other country.  Some, if not most, of us have seen images of terrorists training and indoctrinating the youths of their nations with THEIR version of this.  How do those images make you feel?  Because I can almost guarantee that these images make them feel the same way.  Scared.  Scared of a country so intent on anihilating them that we train our CHILDREN ( ) to go on the offensive against them.

I'd be terrified too.

[charlesed]

[quote]You know, looking at this makes me think.