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NOW BRADY IS TAKING CREDIT FOR THE EDDIE EAGLE PROGRAM!!!
02/23/1993 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The reality behind the lesson
recited by 15 children in an elementary school library Tuesday was
as close as the headline on a newspaper on a desk: "Student Shot,
Dies at Reseda High."
Helping teach them how to prevent gun violence was James Brady,
the former White House press secretary who was seriously wounded in
the 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan.
What do you do if you see a gun? asked Christine Davis, counselor
at Weemes Elementary School in a neighborhood southwest of downtown.
***********HERE IT IS*******************************************
"Don't touch the gun. Get out of the situation. Tell a trusted adult,"
answered the youngsters, who wore blue sashes marked "Peacemaker."
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The demonstration of the new program in the Los Angeles Unified
School District coincidentally came the day after the second fatal
shooting on a district campus in one month.
It also followed Monday's introduction in Congress of the latest
version of the gun-control legislation known as the Brady bill. The
bill's namesake talked to a few of Weemes' 1,800 students from his
wheelchair.
"My son is growing up with a dad who can't do many things that
dads do with sons all the time, all because somebody thought a gun
was the way to solve his problems," Brady said.
The children didn't need to be told the cost of gunplay. Alex
Valdovinos, 9, recounted the death of a relative in a gun accident.
Lisa Bull, 10, told about a "gangbanger" turf battle in which
someone was shot in the back.
None of the children said they had encountered a gun at school.
But 11-year-old Kelly Parram said, "In this neighborhood you hear a
lot of shootings every night."
"Most of the time I think school is the safest place," said
student body president Tara Patten, 11. "But now with all the
violence and kids getting killed, I don't know."
The fatal shooting Jan. 21 of 16-year-old Demetrius Rice at
Fairfax High when a gun went off in a student's backpack 21 prompted
the 640,000-student district to begin random weapons searches using
a dozen metal detectors.
The district also ordered 200 more detectors. After Monday's
killing of Michael Ensley, 17, at Reseda High and arrest of a
15-year-old student, officials said the hand-held detectors would be
in use at all high schools in several weeks and eventually at junior
high schools.
***************HERE'S WHERE BRADY GETS CREDIT FOR IT!!!************
The curriculum introduced by Brady, "Straight Talk About Risks,"
is designed to help students during a violent situation and to
ingrain methods for avoiding or mediating conflicts.
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************Is this stupid? "Duck" a bullet? Yeah, right******
Brady said the program would teach "ducking, which I should have done," as
well as "how to resist peer pressure to play with or carry guns, and how to
tell the difference between real life and television violence."