MIAMI – Students at Miami’s Holmes Elementary School became the latest to learn gun safety from Eddie Eagle.

The cartoon character is the central figure in the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Gun Safety program that’s designed to educate youngsters about what to do if they find a weapon: “Stop, don’t touch. Leave the area and tell an adult,” WSVN reports.

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“Unfortunately, they’re exposed on some level, so it’s good to get it out in the open,” Holmes principal Yvonne Perry told the news site.

Miami-Dade school officers put on the program after several local incidents of teens and children who were shot in recent months.

“How many of you have touched a gun and honestly, I want to see those hands,” on officer asked students, several of whom raised their hands.

Students as young as 8 years old are aware of child gun deaths in Miami, and at least one referenced 6-year-old King Carter, who was killed in crossfire last month as he walked across the street for candy.

“There were two teenagers, they was fighting, and they shot him but he wasn’t in it,” Holmes student John Wooden told WSVN.

CBS Miami reports three males, between 16 and 18, face multiple murder charges in that case.

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“In the city of Miami, gun violence is growing,” Miami-Dade school officer Sofie Shakir said. “This is the age we can mold them, this is the age we can teach them.”

“We’re really hoping that a program like this will help them feel safer, because they have knowledge,” Perry said, “and knowledge is power.”

Many schools seem to be taking the same approach to guns.

Blake Miguez, a competitive shooter and Louisiana state representative, pushed a bill approved last summer that gives elementary schools the means to teach students about gun safety, and several are putting it to use.

“I have my own personal views – I’m pro-Second Amendment – but this is not anti-gun or pro-gun,” Miguez, a Republican, told The Shreveport Times. “This is not politics. This is children’s lives.”

The Louisiana legislation gives school districts the option of providing elementary students with “age- and grade-appropriate classroom instruction regarding firearm accident prevention and safety” through the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program, “or a substantially similar program,” according to the news site.

“Whether you grow up on the bayou or in New Orleans, every child should have an understanding in respect to guns and accident prevention,” Miguez said. “These are not toys. The intent is when children run across a gun in an alleyway, under a park bench or at a friend’s house, they don’t accidentally hurt themselves or someone else.”

Miguez’ law also specifically bars the “expression of value judgements about the use of firearms by teachers, school personnel, or other instructors” administering gun safety lessons.