An excellent photo essay of pictures from Life Magazine of a gun safety program being taught by an Indiana game warden. Contrast that today where even making a finger gesture in the likeness of a gun is likely to get your kid on the wrong end of zero tolerance policies.
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Hmmm. And is there a correlation between removing gun safety from schools and . . . . oh, nevermind.
That’s why when I say we are winning, I know we have a long way to go to completely turn the tide!
I used to go hunting before school, shotgun in rear window of old pickup parked in the school lot, all day, then go hunting again after school.
I would have gun safety training and shooting in every elementary school. I mostly blame single moms for this crisis!
It still happens in Indiana.
One of the directors of the Indiana State Rifle and Pistol Association brings middle schoolers (6, 7,8th graders) to a range in Southern Indiana where a gun safety/shooting program is put on by IDNR.
Indiana: full of gun nuts, but the media leaves us alone
Where on earth are the girls? Cooking class?
Ugh, the fifties.
I say ecurb wins the Internets.