Posted on 01/21/2013 5:47:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
My Dad taught high school JROTC 77-81. They had a .22 range in the basement of the school.
The goal of government schooling is learned helplessness.
In Chicago in the 60s you could as a teen board a CTA bus with a shotgun, sit next to the driver, get off at the last stop on North Avenue and hunt in the fields. Go home with your catch and nobody would ever say a word, be scared or call a cop.
What’s changed is liberalism. The psychology of fear and losing, devilishness and infantilism by government. It’s taken only a short time. The 19th Amendment made all the difference.
Where did Alec’s dad go wrong?
Certainly puts the lie to the “guns kill kids” meme.
My brother won a candy selling contest at Forest hills HS in Marshville, long about 1969. His prize was a semi auto 22, they gave it to him at school and he brought it home on the bus.
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