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>2nd amendment in action, again.
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I have to get up on my soapbox at this point. There is nothing inherently
wrong with the 2nd amendment as written, which was to deemed necessary to arm
citizens as a militia.
I went to a high school in south-central Pennsylvania in the late 60's.
Most of the boys got their deer permits well before the season, and for the
first two weeks or so most of them were absent. Many of their families had
cases of all sorts of weapons, and a number of them had Pennsylvania and
Kentucky long rifles that were not replicas, but instead handed down through
generations.
The metal shop instructor was well versed in weapon repairs, and the kids
were allowed to bring theirs in to do repairs, often a broken screw. They
would bring it into the principal's office, and then escorted back to the metal
shop by the assistant principal, a former Pennsylvania state cop. They would
do the repair under the supervision of the instructor, and then took the weapon
home in the reverse order.
There was never any thought of anyone bringing a weapon to school, other
than a water pistol. And we did not have any suicides or mass killings. All
of this is a recent phenomenon, underscoring the decline of society as the
value of responsibility and accountability declines, together with a lack of
respect for the self and for others.
Odd how that decline seems to follow the removal of shop classes from high
schools.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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