And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, December 19, 2016
Arkansas tenant farmer children - 1935. Photo by Ben Shahn.
I can't see the action of the rifle but the rest of it looks like a rifle that's in the back of the gun safe here at Fort Barney. A Stevens 14 1/2 Little Scout. At least 4 of our generations have learned to shoot with that little gun. I remember my Grandma "showing us how it was done" by shooting dandelions from the back porch. Good times.
Wonder where they were 6-10 years in the future.
ReplyDeleteProbably in some "safe space".
DeleteHow many kids these days get to tote a .22 or a shotgun around, or would even be comfortable with one?
DeleteNot many. I grew up like those kids but most children these days are in a completely different place.
DeleteI can't see the action of the rifle but the rest of it looks like a rifle that's in the back of the gun safe here at Fort Barney. A Stevens 14 1/2 Little Scout. At least 4 of our generations have learned to shoot with that little gun. I remember my Grandma "showing us how it was done" by shooting dandelions from the back porch. Good times.
ReplyDelete