I recall when I was in high school there was still a shooting team. Nowadays the school staff would faint just hearing the word "shoot!"
Passing a timed test for breakdown and reassembly of something like a 1911 should be a standard requirement for graduation.
At schools in the U.S., children can't even decide which bathrooms to use. We are SO screwed.
ReplyDeleteThe grandparents and great grand parents of these young teenagers, still carry the memories of their homeland being invaded from the Wermacht and Luftwaffe. Our nations youth have no such connection to such a threat.
ReplyDeleteIn Junior High, every Thursday afternoon the local hunting club (not the NRA) sponsored a hunter safety class that was in the school cafeteria. On that day, you could bring whichever (unloaded) gun you have to school on the bus. No ammo was allowed. It had to be in some kind of case, or as with many of us, wrapped in an old wool army blanket tied with twine or something. Once you got to school you went directly to the office and they would store your gun in the principals office until time for the class. During the class, you would learn everything about how to safely handle your gun and prepare to hunt birds or deer or whatever. After the class, you packed up your gun and got on the late bus and went home. Nobody was a bonehead and tried anything. And this went on for years, possibly decades with no issues.
ReplyDeleteThat was before Big Pharma started "fixing" children at school.
DeleteIn my part of West Virginia they have the ten commandments on that wall in school & still say the pledge of allegiance. The only reason to carry concealed is when your sister forgets her hunting rifle and you don't want your friends to see the wimpy gun when you take it to her. My point is the news is full of liberal hysteria, but there is still a lot of traditional America left.
ReplyDeleteGood to know West Virginia can be counted on. They let us down in the last civil war. Tradition is alive and well in Texas.
DeleteMy son graduated from High School here in Texas in 2016 and they had a Trap and Skeet Team which he should have been on but he was too busy taking AP courses and playing in the Orchestra. Then he went to Texas A&M where they have a mounted cavalry. They also have a cannon which they fire when the football team scores. Which apparantly isn't often enough. Seems you have to do more than beat Alabama to be the champions. I digress. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI’m a coach on my daughter’s high school clay target shooting team. It is absolutely amazing to watch these kids develop shooting skills and the discipline required to do it safely. If you want to have your faith restored in today’s youth, find one of these meets and you’ll see hundreds of kids handling guns, ammo, and themselves impressively. The best part is imagining the horror that big-city PC liberals would experience if they knew that this sport even existed at the middle- and high-school level!
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