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johnferg69 wrote:In high school I was on the ROTC rifle team. Bolt action single shot .22 target rifles. Every morning at 7:30 (classes started at 8:15) the Sgt. would issued our rifles from the safe at school, we carried em to a school van in the parking lot, loaded up and went to the National Guard armory down the road.
I heard afterwards they switched to air rifles then did away with the rifle team altogether because of insurance issues.
I would love to see a Firearms Safety and Training class as an elective today. Actually I'd rather see it mandatory but that would offend to many people.

How long ago might that have been?

Here's where the rubber meets the road for me.

In 1995, Eric Holder let a little too much out of the bag. In an interview with C-Span, he said that the "media and government should 'really brainwash people' into opposing firearm ownership," and used the anti-smoking campaign as an example. He went on to say:

“What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore."

The antidote, kryptonite or whatever you'd like to call it for that is this. Somehow, we as gun enthusiasts need to promote shooting sports and shooting safety in general as being a positive to our young people. For example, I'd really like to see, say, skeet shooting as a UIL sport. We're a long ways from that now, but anything that would cast responsible firearms use and ownership in a positive light is something I'd favor.

9Feb2013 "AUSTIN, TEXAS– Today Representative James White filed HB 1142, which provides locals schools boards the discretion to add an elective course offering that would give their high school students the opportunity to gain an appreciation of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution."

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