There may be hope for this nation yet.

Just when you're thinking about throwing in the towel, barricading the door and becoming a survivalist there comes some good news. Here's an example I found over at Breitbart.com;

West Virginia is considering a bill to teach schoolchildren how to handle a gun and hunt safely its proponent hopes will increase state revenues from hunting licenses, a state lawmaker said Thursday.

"We will teach a hunting safety course during their physical education class," state senator and bill sponsor Billy Wayne Bailey told AFP. The courses would be imparted in secondary schools, from the eighth to 10th grade (13-16 years of age).

"They will learn gun safety, the proper use of fire arms. All the weapons will be disabled so there is no chance of discharging," he said, adding that the state Senate was expected to take up the bill next week.

"Hunting is an economic and cultural thing and we have seen a decline of hunting licenses over the past years," said the lawmaker, explaining that his bill would boost interest in hunting in West Virginia.

Children 10 years and older can already apply for a hunting license in West Virginia, which makes 1.5 billion dollars a year from hunting-related activities, the senator said.

In a country where some states believe you should cut and run from any home invader, speaking from a town where the local school kids are taught that guns are evil (and I'm in Texas for crying out loud, figure THAT one out!), as a man who's wife now works the midshift in a facility where there is NO security and her supervisor had an attack of the vapors when she asked about bringing in a legal firearm, I would have to say this definetly counts as a ray of sunshine. God bless West Virginia.