Posted on 07/17/2019 4:01:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
“I wonder when the American public is going to wake up to what the Left is doing.”
I suspect the American people won’t wake up until they’ve lived through the nightmare of socialism.
Professor Williams paints a very sad picture of how the Great Society has ruined the lot of black people in this country.
He grew up in the poorest part of Philadelphia. I’m sure his life wasn’t a fairy tale, but nobody shot him on a street corner, he completed his education, and went on to achieve great things.
In the mid 70’s, my buds and I would go duck hunting after school, so we had shotguns, shells, decoys and waders in our cars. In my speech class, I did a demonstration on how to tear down, clean and reassemble a pump gun. Carried it through the school, no problem.
I was in high school in the Midwest during the mid 60s and regularly took my .22 rifle and 12 ga shotgun to school...
Marksmanship training in the indoor range in the school basement, and often road hunted or walked adjacent fields for pheasants and cottontails during lunch hour...I could walk from the truck to the nearest corn or bean field!
We even kept the guns in our personal lockers occasionally...Can’t recall anyone ever abused the situation, and our shooting coach (a retired Marine and English teacher) kept a close eye on us...No incidents involving firearms, ever... How times and people have changed!
Yhanks gor pinging this post. My HS was JROTC. We had a championship rifle ream which competeted with seven other HSs in NYC that were not JROTC. Being a JROTC school every student we all had to qualify in marksmanship beginning in 10th grade. We used .22 cal match rifles on a 50’ range. The rifles were stored in school.
One amusing note, while I had scored sharpshooter in 10th and 11th, for some reason I was off target in 12th. Our new rangemaster and MilSci instructor brought me down to try again. He was a Green Beret who had been wounded as an adviser. He had placed his M16 in the range rack. It was 64 and none of us had ever seen a 16. He said “What do I have to do to get you qualified?” I looked at the rifle racks and said if I scored sharpshooter he could let me fire one round from that weapon. To my surprise he agreed. I hit 89 out of a 100. He then readied his M16, showed me how to hold and sight it , and I fired my one round. Very cool experience.
Indeed, many upstate NY HSs had CMP/DCM sponsored rifle teams operating in the basement 50 ft small bore three position ranges.
I graduated from Deposit Central HS in 79, shot every fall in HS, my younger brother graduated in 83 or 84 and it went away shortly thereafter.
Funny thing, none of the team members murdered anyone 9 we did drink a few illicit brewskies on the bus ride home from away shoots).
As a lefty, I shot a US Army marked Winchester 52D, as the Anschutz 54s all had sharp RH cheek pieces.
My dad was the team armorer for decades.
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