He’s Den of Tools. He doesn’t do the bear much anymore.
Also gotten away from good tool reviews. Honestly his channel kind of just feels like a cash grab anymore with sponsorships and a bunch of affiliate links for shite tools on Amazon.
He moved onto Amazon now? He was just a blatant shill for Harbor Freight.
In case you didn’t grow up in a rightwing / gun nut family…
Yeah, this is a thing and has been for a while,.fairly normalized use of animal mascots for… fairly serious, generally adult level topics.
I think this is more of less the idea of ‘family appropriate’.
Anyway!
Ladies and Gents: The NRA’s own… Eddie Eagle!
(brought to you on VHS)
Apparently he’s gotten a CGI makeover these days.
EDIT:
ok, now, seriously:
Eddie’s slogan there is actually a pretty decent set of instructions for young kids to sing along to (its presented in a sing song way) to actually instill a very basic but effective level of how a kid should treat / react to a found gun.
Obviously, the concept of … keeping a gun, in a home, with kids… which can even be found 8n the first place… is an entirely different issue.
The … slogan is obviously not a fullproof safety mechanism.
But, I can still sing that derpy slogan to this day, so it did at least work on me.
The thing about gun safety is that it’s not just your home where kids may come across guns.
I’m a super leftist, but also a gun owner who used to work in the industry. I’ve been invited to several friend’s houses to explain gun safety to kids AND parents.
One of the things I do is bring real guns (obviously no ammo), disassemble them, show how they work, supervise the kids handling them, etc. While my dummy guns are great tools, part of what causes kids to play with guns is their mysterious nature. You have to demystify them.
It’s why when I was young, my Dad was always willing to pull out the guns with me to look at and inspect them - it kept me from doing it on my own. A gun was therefore no different to me than a drill or a hammer as far as the allure to mess with them was concerned.
I’m no longer religious, but you are doing god’s work, so to speak… I really wish more leftists did as you do.
You understand that reality denial is not an effective public safety strategy… you probably also thus understsnd it is not an effective political strategy as well.
Your ‘demystify’ angle is, imo, spot on, that’s gonna be effective with a large majority of kids, and even immature / inexperienced adults.
I went through the whole gun safety schpiel in school and summer camp. My parents didn’t keep guns readily available, but my grandparents and the neighbor kids’s parents did. The grandparents got a speech and a gun safe. The neighbors… well, my parents never went in their house, so how would my parents know? (My parents were baaaad at social)
Anyways, agreed. Too many guns are easy for kids to get ahold of, and parents don’t know everything about where their kids are.
Yeah…
The flipside of this, which I have also often encountered:
Rabidly anti-gun people who get their hands on, or get near one, and have less than 0 conception of how proper gun safety works, will sweep the fuck out of everyone, with their finger in/on the trigger…
… Or, will be utterly terrified when you do a proper unloading/check of the weapon, with it pointed in a safe direction, screaming at or even shoving you while you do this.
There’s plenty of very immediate and practical stupid all the way around the sociopolitical spectrum when it comes to guns, it just comes in different flavors.
Yep. From memory: Rule 1 of guns: never point it at anything you don’t want to shoot.
Rule 2: treat all guns like they’re loaded
Rule 3: if you are going to shoot something, make sure you’re ok shooting whatever is behind that thing. Don’t shoot over hills or other places where you can’t see where the bullet might end up.
I’m glad I got early gun safety training. Guns aren’t scary to me, they’re just tools. People I don’t trust with guns are frigging terrifying.
Yep, only minor modification is that the version of Rule 1 I was taught… not ‘shoot’, instead, ‘destroy’.
Connotes more damage and seriousness than… well, thanks to Hollywood/Video Games, if you’re the main character or otherwise have plot armor, you can probably just shrug off a few 9mm or 5.56mm rounds, right?
I guess also the uh, rider to Rule 2 was/is:
… unless you, personally, have properly verified that the gun is not loaded, recently.
And then after that was about an hour and a half of, ok, here are a bunch of different kinds of guns with different actions, heres some snap caps, lets show you how to actually do that.
Bolt actions, dropblocks, lever actions, pump actions, swing out revolver, semi auto pistol, semi auto rifle.
… I guess we ‘missed’ belt fed mgs, rofl.
EDIT
And yeah, rule 3 is one a lot of people tend to forget or rationalize into not being worth considering.
Rule 3 is like… here’s why a semi auto rifle is probably a terrible home defense weapon, especially if you live in an apartment… stick with maybe bird shot or a 9mm? Even 9mm can pen most American internal walls if it misses a stud.
But also, Rule 3 is basically why firing any kind of a warning, or simply errant shot in a populated area just is a crime. (well, or at least a misdemeanor, ymmv, consult local gun laws, etc)
Bullets fired straight up come down somewhere, people and things have been injured and ‘destroyed’ by this, and an angled shot at concrete or asphalt has a decent chance of either ricocheting away into god knows what (or who), or just basically deconstructing, splintering, ‘splattering’ into a bunch of fragments with unpredictable trajectories.
Yep. Rule 3 was really hammered home in my hunter’s safety course (one of many courses at a free 2-week summer camp i went to each year, which was put on by my state’s Fish and Wildlife department). We’d have the lecture, a written test, then a field test. The field test, they’d take us in groups of about 5 out on a trail and ask us if it would be ok to shoot at various targets. Most of the time it’d be “no”. The target would be past a no-hunting sign, or at the top of a hill, or similar. It forced you to think about your surroundings. I think we also carried wooden fake rifles, so the instructor could see if we pointed them at anything.
(Other courses included first aid, local critters, boating safety, fishing, swimming, and archery.)
Yeah I wasn’t raised around guns by anyone in my family (the aunt that had a gun was seen as trashy for it among other things), but as an adult I think it’s irresponsible to raise a child in America without teaching basic gun safety. I hate that it’s like that, but it is. There are a lot of “responsible gun owners” who have kids and no gun safe.
Yeah.
They are so commonplace that… if you would teach your kids to say, stay away from and do not touch used needles at a park or on a sidewalk?
You should probably also teach your young kids at least Eddie Eagle level of gun safety, regardless of whether or not there’s a gun in your household.
Or as we used to say as little scouts after the mandatory safety video with a terrible 90’s educational rap, “Stop, pick up, leave the area, shoot an adult!”
Good lord lol.
I cannot emphasize, the video was like 20 minutes long and literally half of it is just that same line over and over and over and over. And we had to watch it every year.
Damn, you got it worse than me, sheesh.
My dad just got a home copy and made us watch… maybe 3 times, over 2 years?
Ironically, or perhaps not, within a week of watching it the first time, I found a new box in a hall closet, surprise! It’s a handgun.
I was also home alone at this time, knew how to use a phone, but my parents did not list their work numbers anywhere… So I just left it alone.
EDIT:
For any younger readers:
This is before smartphones, cellphones existed.
We had a phone, in the kitchen, mounted to the wall, that wasn’t even cordless.
I don’t see no bear on that channel
They stopped using the bear avatar in March 2022
just in time for the boom? goddamn, ahead of their time, behind the curve
I think the furry vtuber tool reviewer fans are a too specific niche
