Do you ever think about the reasons people speak in opposition to weapons? I ask myself that all the time. In the face of an ongoing war, the government expects us to sign our children up to serve but do not allowed them to learn about weapons. Maybe the insurgence of violence in our cities gets you thinking about defending yourself with weapon knowledge. Or do you enjoy being defenseless?
I don’t know about you but our county sheriff said to the press the people need to take the law into their hands. We just don’t have enough deputies to cover the county. What? How can we do that when we have been brainwashed in our public schools to believe that weapons are dangerous? Do you enjoy being scared and defenseless? I don’t, and I’m not.
Have you ever studied primitive weapons in those history classes in the public schools? Well, if you covered all the ages, you better have talked about weapons because that is how the people got their food. That is how people kept their families safe from predators, only back then the predators weren’t human for the most part. The cave men MADE WEAPONS! From the very first, people devised a way to make a weapon for all these reasons, and because of that invention by necessity, we have weapons today. 
How are you involved in the use of weapons in your daily life? If you think you play no part in weaponry, you are sadly mistaken. You expect the police you call to your door to be carrying a gun. How can they defend you against criminals with guns if they have no guns?
How do you cut your meat? We cut our meat and veggies with the same exact weapon that crazies take to universities and stab multiple people with, making the headlines. Soldiers inside and outside of our country use many different weapons, and you also expect to see that.
You use weapons when you g
o to play those innocent paintball games that you enjoy so much. You buy your children fake guns that shoot foam darts and super shoot water. Oh, well, maybe you don’t do that because of the risk of those guns getting your child expelled from school. But you see where I’m going with this.
I teach my children not only the history of weaponry but the what, when, where, how and why about using weapons. Our children are taught what weapons they may use when they are allowed to use them and with whom, where they are allowed to use them, how to safely execute the job of the weapon, and why weaponry/weapons are important.
My little ones don’t need to be scared to death; they are safe and sound around weapons because we made their environment 
weapon familiar for them. They know knives are sharp and how to use them as well as carry them. Each of them knows if they are old enough in the first place to handle them at all. These lessons are just as important as fire drills or learning about 911.
My son brought in his knife from the barn where he has been working long and hard at getting it just the way he wants it. He drew a design, cut the metal, filed and hardened it with a torch. Today was the day he needed to bring it into the house to use the oven and anneal it. He explained to me that the steel needed to be hardened but if he left it that way and the knife dropped on the concrete, it could crack, so it needed to be softened in the oven, annealed.
Now, he has taught me about a weapon that is just a knife. It has no intention to do harm. It is just a knife made from scratch with his bare hands. He understands the entire process of producing such an item. He is proud, and I am proud of him.
Remember, anything, including the human hand, can be a weapon when the intention to do harm accompanies its use. Teach your children to respect the weapon. Use it the way it was meant to be used by the original hunters and gatherers. Hunt, prepare food, defend yourselves if need be. At the end of the day, weapons are designed to be a tool to do work. They do not do harm without a human component/intention.
We are not afraid of our knives, and my kids are always welcome to bring theirs into my school.