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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted on 02/01/2016 3:04:23 PM PST by jazusamo
There is a letter titled "Isn't It Strange?" making the rounds in email boxes. It asks questions to which our fellow Americans should know the answers, save for those caught up in modernity.
It starts off asking, "Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture but ... after a shooting, the problem is the gun?" In other words, after a shooting, it is the gun, an inanimate object, that is the culprit, but after a bombing, it is not the bomb that receives the blame but the evil individual. In both cases it is the evil individual who is to blame.
Ronald Reagan had it right when he said, "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
Speaking of guns, the letter has a 1950s photo of high school girls at an indoor shooting range. The photo caption states: "Back in the 1950s and even later, many high schools had shooting ranges. Students even brought their own rifles to school." It asks, "What changed in society that we could trust such activities then, but not now?"
Youth involvement with guns has a long history. The 1911 second edition of the Boy Scout Handbook made qualification in NRA's junior marksmanship program a prerequisite for obtaining a BSA merit badge in marksmanship. In 1918, the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. established its own Winchester Junior Rifle Corps. The program grew to 135,000 members by 1925. In New York City, high school gun clubs were started at Boys, Curtis, Commercial, Manual Training and Stuyvesant high schools. I would like to ask America's anti-gun fanatics what accounts for today's mayhem:...
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Walter Williams nails it, like he does every time. I’ve never seen him go wobbly.
I couldn’t agree more.
I discovered him in the 90s when I was in California. He was an island of sanity for me then. Great Mind. Great Man. And amazingly funny!
Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Brilliant as always WEW.
For decades leftists touted the tabula rasa or "blank slate" theory of human mental abilities. You were whatever society put into you. There was no such thing as inherited intelligence.
We now know that's hogwash. People have inherited intelligence. In the nature vs. nurture argument, nature wins out about 75-25. Maybe more.
Wish he or Sowell would have run for President. Great!
Public schools are in “group” teaching.......no individual thought, think it has seeped into the daily life.
I would like to ask America's anti-gun fanatics what accounts for today's mayhem: Have guns become more evil or have people become more evil?
I don't think guns are more evil. My rifle seems to be about as evil now as when I bought it 40 years ago. When I shoot it now it seems to have the same amount of he**fire coming out its mouth as back then.
And I don't think people are more evil now. When they stopped schools from laying a paddle (the Board of Education) across miscreants rearends it allowed some of the students to turn the whole school into a shooting range.
I wish hed’d run for president.
“It asks questions to which our fellow Americans should know the answers, save for those caught up in modernity.”
My wife and I both have photos in our ‘73 yearbooks with students in a classroom holding their rifles as members of the hunting club. Nobody thought anything bad about it.
You think it may have something to do with values and the sad state of public education now?
Yep, our high school like many others had an ROTC program with shooting teams.
Thanks for the post! Always good to hear from Dr. Williams.
Does anyone post the letter? Somehow it’s the one mass email I didn’t get.
It’s not strange if your agenda is to confiscate the guns
from the people.
Ha! We think alike. I haven’t seen but may have deleted it without even looking at it.
I would highly suggest that any one interested in Jazasama’s post, that they open her page and view her gallery of heroes ...
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