I left when it was apparent they were going left.....
I left when it was apparent they were going left.....
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40 years ago, I was friends with an elderly man who was a Methodist and was a Methodist all his adult life, very smart and Christian. He died long ago and didn’t have to witness what his church had become.
There is a way to minimize gun violence and a kind of “gun control” that would really work.
REQUIRE, as a condition of being allowed to vote or drive an automobile or consume alcoholic beverages, that all persons above the age of fourteen first be given a course in the care, operation, feeding and grooming of sidearms of all kinds, from BB guns to 4-gauge shotguns, including bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles, single-shot or semi-automatic pistols, and revolvers of all calibers. And to qualify to some degree of marksmanship.
The real control comes in with releasing of the safety, jacking a round into the chamber, raising the weapon to position, controlling breathing, sighting in on the target, SQUEEZING off the trigger, ejecting the spent cartridge, and repeating until the sumbish falls down.
If you left any later than 1964, you were already behind the power curve.