Posted on 09/17/2005 9:08:12 PM PDT by neverdem
Except for National Guard infantry divisions mobilized just prior to the war, most did not learn to shoot until after they arrived at infantry training. For too many, shooting was all they learned.
One of major complaints about infantry replacements coming onto the line was their poor marksmanship
You are aware that this is a Conservative site, right?
Thank you!
Now *please* explain that to my hubby!
[He jumps a half-foot out of his chair when he turns and finds me just 'suddenly standing there' as though I'd silently transported from another dimension]....LOL!
We live out in the sticks and laugh about it. I thought we'd be breathing lots of clean country freah air here. Well, it's clean but the "country fresh" is dairy farm. Greets you almost every morning. We like to joke about that along with the other country fresh scent... fresh skunk roadkill. No offense taken.
If people are afraid of guns, that's all right with me. If they are afraid of guns AND they try to mess with my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms that's NOT all right with me.
I submit that if you were around firearms and got familiar with them you would not fear them. A gun is not going to jump off a table or out of a holster all by itself and start shooting. You were probably unfamiliar with a steak knife at one time but I'll bet you eventually got proficient with that implement. A firearm is an implement that requires a little education to use properly, nothing more.
Yes I am.
>>Neither would I. I suppose if the kids get older and want to go hunting, I'd not like it (I would HATE it) but they could go.
People as nice as you prove there's plenty of room for both of us.
We have friends who owns guns and have 150 acres and are VERY responsible. We'll get hooked up with them to start.
Sure, if it's just for the purpose of mowing it down to kill it. But if it is to dress and eat it, well, I think that we used to encourage children to hunt to help put food on the family table. Maybe things have changed, but this is a skill that shouldn't be considered strange just because it is no longer commonplace.
Well thanks :-) Kids do have to make decisions for themselves when they're older and I'd hate for my child to become my enemy.
"...kids in WWII saved this country because they could shoot..."
Absolutely right. It was Americans with shooting experience versus Japanese and Germans who had none. That made a huge difference in the war. Read your history books and you will see that U.S. forces were ususally outnumbered in battle. Marksmanship determined the outcome.
O.K. that explains your view on this to me then. And the NY thing;O)
Yeah the NY thing *LOL*
Conservatives can be critter-loving vegatarians too ya know...:))
I used to eat no meat until I became carbohydrate intolerant and now I eat almost nothing but.
It wasn't a fun choice to make because I love critters but starving to death didn't appeal to me very much either.
I knew that only one of us was gonna survive supper time and I picked *me*...:)
[on the upside, I feel a *lot* better than I did when eating "sticks and twigs"]....LOL!
Damn it now you got me thinking about food. If I only had some Elk...
How 'bout it? We left the city for our homestead about 18 months ago, and I STILL cannot get used to the dead skunk...especially when the dog finds it on the road, brings it home, buries it, then digs it up and rolls in it a few days later!
LOL! I agree!
I have always hunted for the larder. You can't eat the rack.
I caught a lot of flack one year for filling my buck tag with a spike buck that had to move his ears before I was sure I could take the shot--legally, that is. A friend was helping me drag the buck up out of the ravine and said "Hey, change sides with me, I'm having trouble holding onto this antler."
I laughed and told him :"That is the big side." Good eating deer, though.
Probably the best decision you'll ever make.
A gun teaches a kid responsibility and respect *very* quickly....:)
What a nice attitude. Thanks, everybody, for keeping this thread so friendly and fun. I've really enjoyed it. There's been too many lately that have not been so enjoyable esp. on a topic as volatile as this one could be. Good night.
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