When I was but a lad ... going to George Washington High School in Alexandria,VA in the early 1950s, our school had a rifle club ... and a rifle range in the high school basement. Gasp! How could this be? Didn’t the students shoot each other or turn into terrorists?
No, they learned gun safety, how to handle and clean weapons ... and marksmanship ... all Second Amendment qualities we used to cherish. And maybe helpful to those classmates who ended up in Vietnam.
Now, if we are unlucky enough to enter into another war, I doubt if we will be able to defend ourselves quite as well. Unless, of course, such conflicts are virtual ... and on an iPad.
2 comments:
#1 There is virtually no one who hates .22 rifles being used for target practice by organized teams.
#2 I was also in the rod and gun club in High School. We did not have semi-automatic rifles.
#3 Do not worry. "Call of Duty" has prepared a new generation of killers. Put an AR-15 in their hands and try to point them at the enemy.
Horse puckey. I had a single-shot .22. I'd take a box of 100 and go out to a table in the gulley at the end of the pear orchard and set up cans I took out of our dump on to target stand. Alone.
As to learning, here is an article about the NRA doing what they should be doing: https://time.com/longform/high-school-shooting-teams/ And that's girls shooting skeet.
As to soldiers, the war with China you are predicting will not be infantry in trenches with guns trying to claim land. That's so 20th century.
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