When Yehuda Remer became a first-time gun owner at the same time he was raising children, he wanted to teach his kids firearm safety.
There was little to guide him.
“I realized there really was nothing on the market, except the Eddie Eagle program and Project ChildSafe.” Remer said in a recent interview with guns.com. “Both are great programs but all they give you are pamphlets or a couple of cut-outs. There was nothing that was there that you could just read to your child and teach them about the proper gun safety protocols.”
So Remer wrote his own book: “Safety On: An Introduction to the World of Firearms for Kids.”
According to guns.com, “The book has received mostly praise, gathering endorsements from big names such as famed gun trainers Massad Ayoob and Rob Pincus as well as industry heavyweights Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation and gun rights activist Antonia Okafor.”
"Safety On" was published this year by White Feather Press, after ten years of rejections from other publishers.
Remer sees the book as a way of properly teaching his children. In the author’s note on his amazon.com page, he writes, "Where do you suggest I teach my children about gun culture in America? Should I leave that to the media and Hollywood?”
Remer still sees hesitation about “Safety On.” His reply: “What would happen if your child finds a gun at a park or somewhere it’s not supposed to be? Based on the TV and movies that everyone watches, what do you think your child’s going to do?” He added, “You don’t want to have a conversation about guns with your child because you feel that your job is to protect your children so talking to them about something that literally is used to kill, whether it’s in self defense or hunting, to bring that up to a child is a very hard topic; but on the other hand, the reason why you bring it up is to make sure they’re safe as well. To make sure that they understand what firearms can do and how have you to behave around them.”
“I set out to write (the book) for people with guns and people without guns,” Remer said. “Whether you’re on the right side of the aisle or left side, it doesn’t make a difference. The book is solely there to save lives.”
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