Winnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shooting

[signalmankenneth]

After that blatant show of cowardice shown by Texas law enforcement at Uvalde last year, now the state of Texas is handing out these books to school children?!! A coward dies many deaths!

Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, was sent home in backpacks of children.

Texas schoolchildren as young as four years old are being given Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon books, teaching them to “run, hide, fight” if a gunman enters their building.

Parents and teachers in the Dallas area have expressed alarm and concern that the Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, has been sent home in the backpacks of children in pre-kindergarten and elementary classes.

The book features the honey-loving bear created by AA Milne and illustrator EH Shepard instructing kids about how to react to a mass shooting. It is not an official production, Winnie-the-Pooh has been in the public domain since 1 January 2022.

The subtitle to the Stay Safe book is: “If there is danger, let Winnie-the-Pooh and his Crew show you what to do: Run Hide Fight.”
Run, hide, fight are the tactics advised by the FBI “should the unthinkable occur”.

Inside pages of the book, featuring other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood, tell kids: “If it is safe to get away, we should RUN like Rabbit instead of stay … If danger is near, do not fear, HIDE like Pooh does until the police appear.”

The “hide” page has a drawing of Pooh burying his head in a pot of honey.

The “hide” page has a drawing of Pooh burying his head in a pot of honey.

On the following page, Kanga and baby Roo are shown wearing boxing gloves. The text says: “If danger finds us, don’t stay, run away. If we can’t get away, we have to FIGHT with all our might.”

The book was given to children in Dallas-area schools on Monday without discussion or comment either with teachers or the families who received it. The move came on the week of the first anniversary of Uvalde, the mass shooting in a Texas elementary school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

A teacher from a Dallas elementary school of about 500 students told the Guardian she found the book “terribly disturbing”. She had been given a stack of copies, she said, to give to each child in her class.

“I found it extremely disturbing, and was very uncomfortable with the whole contents of the book,” the teacher said, requesting anonymity.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ks-teaches-texas-kids-run-hide-fight-shooting

 

[Walt]

The level of violence in Texas, and America in general is really getting out of hand. Strangely enough, the least violent area in Texas is along the border with Mexico, where violence is at record lows. Even in Uvalde, it took Federal law enforcement to do anything about it.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

things will continue to get worse all over the country until the anti gun groups understand something..........you cannot stop gun violence by making more restrictive laws.

we defend our president with guns
we defend our congress with guns
we defend our governors with guns
we defend our celebrities with guns
we defend our sporting events with guns
we defend our jewelry stores with guns
we defend our banks with guns
we defend our office buildings with guns
we defend our factories with guns
we defend our courts with guns

we defend our children with a sign that reads
"this is a gun free zone"
and then call someone with a gun if there's an emergency

someone is thinking wrongly about this and it's not me, you dumbass

 

[Cypress]

Third graders lying in pools of blood is the price of freedom.

 

[QP!]

things will continue to get worse all over the country until the anti gun groups understand something..........you cannot stop gun violence by making more restrictive laws.

we defend our president with guns
we defend our congress with guns
we defend our governors with guns
we defend our celebrities with guns
we defend our sporting events with guns
we defend our jewelry stores with guns
we defend our banks with guns
we defend our office buildings with guns
we defend our factories with guns
we defend our courts with guns

we defend our children with a sign that reads
"this is a gun free zone"
and then call someone with a gun if there's an emergency

someone is thinking wrongly about this and it's not me, you dumbass

So America is alone in the first world with regards to the amount of guns in the public and the view of how they must acquired and stored.

IS it your view that places like Canada, the UK and other places in Europe are being negligent with regards to protecting their kids and population by being far more restrictive of guns and if only they would follow the US model, and allow more accessible gun ownership, they could increase the safety to their children and populace??

 

[QP!]

Third graders lying in pools of blood is the price of freedom.

Wrong meme for republiclowns.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

So America is alone in the first world with regards to the amount of guns in the public and the view of how they must acquired and stored.

IS it your view that places like Canada, the UK and other places in Europe are being negligent with regards to protecting their kids and population by being far more restrictive of guns and if only they would follow the US model, and allow more accessible gun ownership, they could increase the safety to their children and populace??

why would I, as an American, judge our place in the world next to other countries who don't look at freedom the same way that we are supposed to? If you like the way those other countries control their citizenry, fucking move there.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Third graders lying in pools of blood is the price of freedom.

we defend our president with guns
we defend our congress with guns
we defend our governors with guns
we defend our celebrities with guns
we defend our sporting events with guns
we defend our jewelry stores with guns
we defend our banks with guns
we defend our office buildings with guns
we defend our factories with guns
we defend our courts with guns

we defend our children with a sign that reads
"this is a gun free zone"
and then call someone with a gun if there's an emergency

someone is thinking wrongly about this and it's not me, you dumbass

 

[QP!]

why would I, as an American, judge our place in the world next to other countries who don't look at freedom the same way that we are supposed to? If you like the way those other countries control their citizenry, fucking move there.

Why would you? Because it is dumb not to. Are you dumb?

Saying those others countries are not America does not mean they do not provide value to the questions you ask and the information you pose.

YOu are pushing an idea that the way to make things safer is more and more guns. that simply adding more people with guns everywhere makes it more safe.

There is no logic that would say 'that is true in America but no where else. Everywhere else the opposite is true'.


Simply saying America is its own country does not take it outside the bounds of logical comparison. That is a simpleton argument. If a country like Canada suddenly starts allowing people to carry around machetes in public and machete deaths start to soar, looking at other countries that do not allow that, and the lack of deaths by machete is very logical and instructive.

 

[QP!]

we defend our president with guns
we defend our congress with guns
we defend our governors with guns
we defend our celebrities with guns
we defend our sporting events with guns
we defend our jewelry stores with guns
we defend our banks with guns
we defend our office buildings with guns
we defend our factories with guns
we defend our courts with guns

we defend our children with a sign that reads
"this is a gun free zone"
and then call someone with a gun if there's an emergency

someone is thinking wrongly about this and it's not me, you dumbass

This nonsense was already refuted...

So America is alone in the first world with regards to the amount of guns in the public and the view of how they must acquired and stored.

IS it your view that places like Canada, the UK and other places in Europe are being negligent with regards to protecting their kids and population by being far more restrictive of guns and if only they would follow the US model, and allow more accessible gun ownership, they could increase the safety to their children and populace??

 

[BartenderElite]

It's incredible what we've gotten used to, and just accept.

Gun violence in America is at a cartoonishly high level. It's almost like we live in a war zone. There are a lot of reasons - and guns are one of 'em.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Why would you? Because it is dumb not to. Are you dumb?

Saying those others countries are not America does not mean they do not provide value to the questions you ask and the information you pose.

YOu are pushing an idea that the way to make things safer is more and more guns. that simply adding more people with guns everywhere makes it more safe.

There is no logic that would say 'that is true in America but no where else. Everywhere else the opposite is true'.


Simply saying America is its own country does not take it outside the bounds of logical comparison. That is a simpleton argument. If a country like Canada suddenly starts allowing people to carry around machetes in public and machete deaths start to soar, looking at other countries that do not allow that, and the lack of deaths by machete is very logical and instructive.

what's dumb is NOT seeing that a large group(s) of people in one country exist in a very different societal environment than others. i.e. urban groups of people in America can be, and usually are, more violent and selfish than in other countries.

the problem with leftists who think that simply depriving certain people of the means to do violent things will make their world peaceful and non violent, when reality dictates otherwise. you people do not look at the actual cause or solutions, you simply blame the easiest group to target and blame them for it's failure.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

This nonsense was already refuted...

no, it wasn't. YOU refute it, but you're dumb.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

It's incredible what we've gotten used to, and just accept.

Gun violence in America is at a cartoonishly high level. It's almost like we live in a war zone. There are a lot of reasons - and guns are one of 'em.

willful ignorance. it's not the tool, it's the person. take away one tool, they will use another.

 

[martin]

things will continue to get worse all over the country until the anti gun groups understand something..........you cannot stop gun violence by making more restrictive laws.

we defend our president with guns
we defend our congress with guns
we defend our governors with guns
we defend our celebrities with guns
we defend our sporting events with guns
we defend our jewelry stores with guns
we defend our banks with guns
we defend our office buildings with guns
we defend our factories with guns
we defend our courts with guns

we defend our children with a sign that reads
"this is a gun free zone"
and then call someone with a gun if there's an emergency

someone is thinking wrongly about this and it's not me, you dumbass

What restrictive laws are those; didn't know there were any in states where gun violence is most extreme.

 

[BartenderElite]

willful ignorance. it's not the tool, it's the person. take away one tool, they will use another.

No. It is no coincidence that we have the most guns per capita in the world, and highest level of gun violence.

Like I said: there are other factors. But guns can't be taken out of the equation.

 

[Lionfish]

After that blatant show of cowardice shown by Texas law enforcement at Uvalde last year, now the state of Texas is handing out these books to school children?!! A coward dies many deaths!

[FONT=&]Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, was sent home in backpacks of children.

[/FONT]Texas schoolchildren as young as four years old are being given Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon books, teaching them to “run, hide, fight” if a gunman enters their building.

Parents and teachers in the Dallas area have expressed alarm and concern that the Stay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, has been sent home in the backpacks of children in pre-kindergarten and elementary classes.

The book features the honey-loving bear created by AA Milne and illustrator EH Shepard instructing kids about how to react to a mass shooting. It is not an official production, Winnie-the-Pooh has been in the public domain since 1 January 2022.

The subtitle to the Stay Safe book is: “If there is danger, let Winnie-the-Pooh and his Crew show you what to do: Run Hide Fight.”
Run, hide, fight are the tactics advised by the FBI “should the unthinkable occur”.

Inside pages of the book, featuring other characters from the Hundred Acre Wood, tell kids: “If it is safe to get away, we should RUN like Rabbit instead of stay … If danger is near, do not fear, HIDE like Pooh does until the police appear.”

The “hide” page has a drawing of Pooh burying his head in a pot of honey.

The “hide” page has a drawing of Pooh burying his head in a pot of honey.

On the following page, Kanga and baby Roo are shown wearing boxing gloves. The text says: “If danger finds us, don’t stay, run away. If we can’t get away, we have to FIGHT with all our might.”

The book was given to children in Dallas-area schools on Monday without discussion or comment either with teachers or the families who received it. The move came on the week of the first anniversary of Uvalde, the mass shooting in a Texas elementary school in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.

A teacher from a Dallas elementary school of about 500 students told the Guardian she found the book “terribly disturbing”. She had been given a stack of copies, she said, to give to each child in her class.

“I found it extremely disturbing, and was very uncomfortable with the whole contents of the book,” the teacher said, requesting anonymity.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ks-teaches-texas-kids-run-hide-fight-shooting

You really are a tom hartman follower aren't you. Both full of bullshit.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

What restrictive laws are those; didn't know there were any in states where gun violence is most extreme.

fake assault weapons bans, no open carry, gun free school zones, may license requirements, etc. all of these laws that you WANT to enact, that you lie to the people about, that you say will make society safer but will not.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

No. It is no coincidence that we have the most guns per capita in the world, and highest level of gun violence.

Like I said: there are other factors. But guns can't be taken out of the equation.

the definition of insanity........doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. you increasingly restrictive disarmament laws haven't been working. they will not work. they will only leave more children and adults as easy victims

 

[Walt]

we defend our president with guns...we defend our children with a sign that reads
"this is a gun free zone"

Try carrying your gun into the White House and see what happens. Or better yet, I will tell you. There is no possible universe where you survive that. The White House is an extreme gun free zone.