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I get a kick out of how marksmanship is an excellent method for teaching anger management. The ability to calm the body, clear the mind so to put rounds on target..................
Sorta like Yoga and transcendental meditation???? Just funnn'n with ya.
I fully understand the family experience of recreational/sport shooting. I got my first .22 when I was twelve years old and was taught by my veteran father to carry, shoot, hunt safely in our bush on the farm in 1958. Those memories are priceless now.
Sorta like Yoga and transcendental meditation???? Just funnn'n with ya.
I fully understand the family experience of recreational/sport shooting. I got my first .22 when I was twelve years old and was taught by my veteran father to carry, shoot, hunt safely in our bush on the farm in 1958. Those memories are priceless now.
.......3 years on JROTC rifle team in high school.......
This isn't the first time a child got hold of a gun and shot someone, happens all too frequently here.
I would propose tighter gun restrictions that would prevent such easy access to the point that something like this could happen. Yes it is rare but it's symbolic of our gun problem.
But while your at it did up some stats on kids bringing golf clubs to school for violent confrontations.
Tighter gun restrictions aren't the problem, they are already tight enough. The problem is irresponsible parents or the ghetto dweller with 12 cash cows/children and the criminal boyfriend leaving his gun lying around unsecured, and I will guarantee it(gun)is illegal. Responsible law abiding parents know better and secure their weapons. Background checks including mental health can only do so much but work for the most part. Illegal guns are the problem and are immune to background checks, but have fun trying to confiscate them all.
.......3 years on JROTC rifle team in high school.......
Our new to us High School built in 1952 had a range in the crawlspace under the gymnasium. It was designed with a thick cement ceiling with deflector panels and a sand filled backstop. We fired our Lee Enfield #7 .22 training rifles in inter school competitions.
Back in those days most High Schools had cadet training with full military dress and kit (belts and gators) and were issued our rifle to maintain. We competed in every aspect from shooting to square bashing and dress parade. At the end of grade 11 we had to turn all of that kit back in.
That's all gone into the smoke of history now. The young are paying the price for that with complacency and sloth..
Our new to us High School built in 1952 had a range in the crawlspace under the gymnasium. It was designed with a thick cement ceiling with deflector panels and a sand filled backstop. We fired our Lee Enfield #7 .22 training rifles in inner school competitions.
Back in those days most High Schools had cadet training with full military dress and kit (belts and gators) and were issued our rifle to maintain. We competed in every aspect from shooting to square bashing and dress parade. At the end of grade 11 we had to turn all of that kit back in.
That's all gone into the smoke of history now. The young are paying the price for that with complacency and sloth..
And back in those days the focus of the NRA was safety, recreational issues.
I wonder if the NRA went old school it would help.
I know they still do some safety etc...but it isn't what it use to be from what I have read and heard.
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Just funnn'n with ya. 
