School_679_Baltimore_PattersonHigh_RifleClub_1967
Posted on 01/21/2013 5:47:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We had a competitve gun team: 1976.
School_679_Baltimore_PattersonHigh_RifleClub_1967
Fear amongst the masses is the result of the lack of education during the past 40 or so years, driven by federally funded education. Firearms should be taught in school just as sex education has been. Not merely the mechanics, but our heritage as well. Mandatory safe firearms education.
In the late ‘60s, our shop teacher enlisted a few parents and started a gun club. My Dad was a volunteer and we covered a lot of safety along with NRA membership, etc. No casualties and none of us became mass killers.
My Cub Scout troop were introduced to single shot .22 rifles back in the late 50s.
My son got his first .22 at age 8. He kept the rifle in his closet. I kept the little magazine and .22s until I was sure he understood how to properly enjoy the shooting sport.
My school’s ROTC unit has a rifle team....
The decline of school gun clubs coincides with the general loss of common sense and reational judgement along with a turn away from traditional values and follows the rise in the feminization of the government schools.
When I was in Junior High and High school we brought our .22 rifles to school and kept them in our lockers so we could go plinking after school. It was more or less a traditional thing, parents and teachers were aware of it and no one ever abused the permission.
Now the adult gun fearing wussies in charge of schools attack and penalize little children for merely pointing with their index fingers.
I took my rifle to school on the bus.
When I got on I gave it to the driver and he laid it on the heater next to him until we got to school.
I belonged to the FFA Rifle Team.
I took my rifle to school on the bus.
When I got on I gave it to the driver and he laid it on the heater next to him until we got to school.
I belonged to the FFA Rifle Team.
I was required to take NRA hunter safety in High School. I went into the US Army and really learned to shoot.
I participated in our school’s team. The county required an ambulance and physician to be present at every sporting event. We never saw one at ours. Nobody ever got hurt. I can’t recall a single ND or AD at any competitive shooting event anywhere in the state, but at every football game, somebody always got carted away in an ambulance. Long after I graduated and moved on, I heard the county ordered all rifle teams disbanded and clubs off school property as being “too dangerous” and sending “the wrong signals” to students.
“The current easy availability of guns is the cause of our gun violence problem.”
It's us pesky people that were alive in the 50s and 60s that undermine the whole thing. THE FACT IS, GUNS HAVE NEVER BEEN AS DIFFICULT TO 0BTAIN AS THEY ARE TODAY. I can't think of one household in the neighborhood that I grew up in that did not have a gun.
Most of the fathers (and there was one in every home that had kids) were World War II veterans. There were 3 M1 Grands, numerous 1911s, and of course the full compliment of hunting rifles and shotguns in my neighborhood alone. None had locks on them, and many were kept loaded and ‘at the ready.’ And we won't even go into what you could mail order back then (who remembers the great “Service Armament” company?)
By today's logic, the 50s should have been a school bloodbath. But they weren't. And it is obvious to all but the complete idiot that the availability of guns has NOTHING to do with the current problems. But guns are an effective way to keep the sheeple from actually focusing on the real problems!
In the mid 80’s the high school I went to in Nebraska still had a skeet shooting team.
In 8th grade woodshop, I brought in a .22 and custom built a stock for it. The shop teacher had no problem with it whatsoever.
From 9th - 12th grade I was on the rifle team...
Nobody ever got shot.
I was on the rifle team...Alec Baldwin’s father was the coach.
It's true that some of us carried in our own firearms. The upperclassmen had dibs on the Winchesters and Remingtons, and some of the Mossbergs were getting clunky... so my dad found a Winchester 75 target model on a local shop's used gun rack and loaned me the money to buy it. Yep, I used to carry it in the front door of the school. Heck, I used to carry it (cased) on the public bus, before I had a driver's license.
RE: In the mid 80’s the high school I went to in Nebraska still had a skeet shooting team.
Do they still have it now?
RE: I was on the rifle team...Alec Baldwin’s father was the coach.
I gather you are a fellow Long Islander...
Does the rifle team still exist today?
I don’t know. As I typed my first response I wonder if they still had it myself. I ‘ll look it up.
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