We had a pistol range inside of our high school in the basement under the gymnasium and every semester....one week of gym class was on the pistol range.
my how times have changed...rapidly
Release the Brackin, Joe. It’s been a while. I could use some good target practice.
(oops Bracken. don’t taze me bro)
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I remember in high school students coming in there trucks with guns in the gun rack. They stayed there and never once was there a problem. I don’t agree with it anymore because so many kids getting drugs for supposed mental problems. No a days it seems if a kid has a problem they put them on a pill for it.
Sweet.