A seventh grade required reading assignment at a Springfield, Ill middle school actually states that Americans must register their firearms in order to have a Second Amendment right.
From the workbook: “This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison.
Provided to the Illinois Gun Owners Rights Facebook page by a local parent, the required reading makes several blatantly false statements regarding the right to gun ownership.
“This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison,” the workbook states.
Along with an open ended statement regarding the right to “certain weapons,” the assignment also excludes mention that Americans have the right to “keep” and bear arms.
The parent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the assignment to Storyleak and detailed their child’s initial reaction.
“My son was given a workbook at school that is a compilation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. When they covered the 2nd Amendment, he saw that they were stating that only ‘certain guns’ could be owned and that they had to be ‘registered,’ which he knew was false,” the parent said. “He bought this to my attention as he felt it was wrong to teach these things that aren’t true. I’m extremely proud of my son for his actions.”
“Me and my children are active gun enthusiasts and supporters of the 2nd amendment. I have discussed the 2nd amendment with them several times and explained what it meant and its importance to our country.”
While the parent confronted several school administrators, the workbook is likely to stay in circulation for young students across the state.
“I even told the school officials I talked to that you can’t reword the Constitution to what you think it should be and you should only teach what it is,” the parent said. “We live in a society where children are being taught to fear firearms instead of embracing them and our shooting sports. Heck 50-60 years ago you had police officers coming into schools teaching firearm safety and now we have schools teaching false information and fear. It’s a sad time.”
Unfortunately for young minds across the country, false information regarding the Bill of Rights and Constitution is rampant throughout the public school system.
Should be a penalty for people that add to or subtract words like this.
It’s called revisionist history. They print what they like to make them feel better. There ought to be penalties for re-writing the Constitution though.
typical indoctrination tactics
should be taken out behind the woodshed for trying to brain wash children about any part of the constitution !! and trying to teach them an untruth !!
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” There is no list of “certain weapons” and there is no mention of “registration.” Keep it that way!
That,s bull$#%&!@* in other word,s they are teaching our kid,s lies
PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE!!!!!! This is the worst since any Presidential
What we have is ignorance!!
and they an kiss my ass cause I am not going to comply with anything they say besides when I bught weapons as has others we had to fill out some paper work at the desk at whatever store we bought them at and it provides them with more than enough info than they need,they don’t need anything else and it’s been this way since the 60’s
More horse $#%&!@*