“The schools are turning our young men into spineless wimps”.
When I was in High School, some of the boys would take a teacher out to the car or pickup to show them a new rifle. But that was over 50 years ago.
By the time we were 15 me and my brothers had shot our first deer.
When I was 12, my friend would borrow his dad’s shotguns and .22s, and his 16 year-old brother would drive us to the edge of town. We’d set up cans and bottles in front of an earth-berm and start blasting away.
Once a cop showed up. He asked: who owned the guns. We replied - Sammy’s Dad!. His answer: does he know you have them? Our reply: Yes sir!
He then said: OK - be safe, and drove away.
Can’t imagine such a scene today.
“When I was in High School, some of the boys would take a teacher out to the car or pickup to show them a new rifle. “
Similar happened here. When in the Army at a very high security installation in Northern Virginia, I got caught with a 22 rifle in my locker. I was just simply told to get it out of the barracks and put it in my car.
Later on I had a car accident and the investigating cop could have cared less when he saw the gun.
The contrast is look at Virginia today.
I’m about same age. Sometimes I get a lot of crap on FR for being a New Yorker. But my public high school and private college had rifle teams when I was in school.
Fifteen?? Why so late?? Down in S. Louisiana where I grew up, the age is more like eight. The local weekly paper (to which I still subscribe, though living far, far away) routinely publishes pictures of young hunters (quite often female) with their "firsties".