That environment pf school training in the use, safety, and marksmanship that led to my proficiency in their use: Army qualifications as Expert with M-1 Rifle, M-1 Carbine, B. A. R., as well as 81mm Mortar Master Gunner. Also, I competed on the Syracuse University Rifle Team.
Shucks, I recall we used to have school assemblies that featured exhibition shooters showing trick shooting, indoors! Those shooters used .22 pump-action rifles.
But for some ill-conceived reason, today's schools have convinced their little wards to irrationally fear real guns without ever actually handling them, or at least, seeing them fired and appreciating the difference of real gunnery versus computer or video arcade games.
I am fully convinced that all our public schools ought to at least be required to give every teacher and every child some kind of exposure to the rules of gun handling and safety, as well as seeing first hand the power of a fired bullet.
I’m with you. Same issues with knives now too. Typical EDC knife of a boy in high school in late 60s early 70s was a Buck 110 folder or comparable on the belt. At least a pocket knife in the pocket of every boy’s jeans.
That the NRA is somehow blamed by these whiney POSs is typical of the left’s rants. Never mind the truth, or policy changes that would work, advance the agenda.