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I guess it’s up to the NRA to fix society’s ills. Obviously the presence of guns has been with us long before nut cases started shooting up gun free zones...what could be the problem?

C’mon NRA, could it be your insistence on the Second Amendment has caused gun free zones?

Actually, In my day, the 1950s, the schools were not gun-free zones. It was there that I got my good early marksmanship training from the Crasman Arms backing of gun safety and inter-school rifle competitions, probably thanks to encouragement from returning WWII and Korean War veteran dads.

That environment pf school training in the use, safety, and marksmanship that led to my proficiency in their use: Army qualifications as Expert with M-1 Rifle, M-1 Carbine, B. A. R., as well as 81mm Mortar Master Gunner. Also, I competed on the Syracuse University Rifle Team.

Shucks, I recall we used to have school assemblies that featured exhibition shooters showing trick shooting, indoors! Those shooters used .22 pump-action rifles.

But for some ill-conceived reason, today's schools have convinced their little wards to irrationally fear real guns without ever actually handling them, or at least, seeing them fired and appreciating the difference of real gunnery versus computer or video arcade games.

I am fully convinced that all our public schools ought to at least be required to give every teacher and every child some kind of exposure to the rules of gun handling and safety, as well as seeing first hand the power of a fired bullet.