Posted on 08/06/2017 3:33:56 PM PDT by poinq
Wait, I always thought that the left wanted more licensing, training, permits, restriction? So we call their bluff on the training, and they reveal their true position. Of course, we already knew their end game was always a 100% civilian ban.
I have hunted in WI before; the gun deer season is great. Friday night (before Saturday AM opening) at the local sports store is a zoo with all the young folks picking up their tags. Very cool.
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My Dad bought a 1944 vintage M1 Carbine from the old DCM as surplus when I was 14 for about $25.00 and gave it to me with 2 30 round and 2 15 round magazines. A similar one was issued to him in the WWII field artillery.
Liberals would go berzerk today about a 14 year old having a “weapon of war” with high capacity magazines.
He took me to the range many times and he taught me how to shoot and handle it safely.
He even taught me how to field strip it.
So far after these many years it has not jumped up and shot anyone.
Maybe out in the sticks, but not in Madison or Milwaukee. Gun safety training is a good idea. I’ve seen adults with CCW permits who are scary-dangerous handling firearms.
Dad said that his cousins (in Pennsylvania in the 80s) had hunting rifles on the gun racks in his pick up at school. The first mass school shooting was not in the 1990s, but in 1764.
>>Don’t recall any panic when he walked to School carrying it.<<
A couple years back someone called 911 in downtown Madison WI when they saw a hunter returning to his apartment carrying his shotgun. Made the news and caused a mini-panic before they figured out it was a hunter legally carrying his gun. Times really have changed.
Similar situation here [CT]; most schools, even elementary, had ranges in their basements.
I told this story many times, that in the 50s, my brother was in the jr. rifle club at elementary school. Later in junior high and HS.
We were both brought up in the shooting sports, so when he was allowed to shoot, it irked me that girls weren’t allowed; I was always a better shot than he. :D
Most of the boys carried their .22s to school; that even included the kids who rode a city bus; you stood them in the corner of the *coatroom* until after school.
Depending on your teacher, you either kept the ammo in your pocket, or put it on her desk until dismissal.
There were never any accidents. No one ever got shot.
I don’t recall who the instructors were. Through Scouting? X-Military? Local rifle clubs? NRA?
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I guess Annie Oakley was wrong. You can get a man with a gun.
Growing up, my cousins in Pennsylvania had their rifles on the gun rack in their pick up at school. As an archer, I had my hunting bow in my pick up.
Public school - and most private school - are in business to raise anti-gun pheasants beholden to the government.
No time for that,interferes with transgender training
I would say High School is too late. Let’s make it required during middle school.
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We went to Eau Clare a couple of years ago since my husband’s family is from Eau Clare. In the yearbook there were gun clubs for both high school boys and girls. Looked like a lot of fun.
Gun safety courses should start in the fourth grade or sooner.
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