Yep, er', I'm old. Date back to normal folks keeping a locked upstairs dungeon full of military rifles they got on the cheap, mail order, out of the back of an American Rifleman magazine. There were guns all over the place. Everybody had lots of them. Little kids had them. People put Springfield rifles in nine month old babies' cribs so they wouldn't get so fucking skittish every time a fist fight broke out. People were remarkably abusive. But there were no shooting incidents.
Today's lecture has to do the new status of gun violence. When I was a teensy punk, kids were taught gun safety starting at around age one. We weren't allowed to play with bullets till we were eighteen months, and only severe dysfunctionals were excused from hunting. "I got no use for a toddler who won't gut a deer," my grandmother would often say. There was all sorts of violence, but people didn't get shot, because the rusticated rural townfolk knew how to handle guns, and were taught rather strictly. The reason for the misty water color memory sequence is because maybe gun safety should be taught in school. Maybe kids need to learn how to be safe in a world loaded for bear. In Israel they teach tiny tots the Hebrew National martial art, krav maga, and it really helps in country with those types of woes.
American kids might be engaging in gun violence because their role models are criminals. Perhaps the good guys should make it a point to make a good impression, instill some value in human life, while teaching safe practice. People need to be pragmatic about our nutty, deranged, loaded for bear populace of fucked up malefactors. Rather than continue fiddling over gun control, I propose better education. It needs to get more John Wayne.
Today's lecture has to do the new status of gun violence. When I was a teensy punk, kids were taught gun safety starting at around age one. We weren't allowed to play with bullets till we were eighteen months, and only severe dysfunctionals were excused from hunting. "I got no use for a toddler who won't gut a deer," my grandmother would often say. There was all sorts of violence, but people didn't get shot, because the rusticated rural townfolk knew how to handle guns, and were taught rather strictly. The reason for the misty water color memory sequence is because maybe gun safety should be taught in school. Maybe kids need to learn how to be safe in a world loaded for bear. In Israel they teach tiny tots the Hebrew National martial art, krav maga, and it really helps in country with those types of woes.
American kids might be engaging in gun violence because their role models are criminals. Perhaps the good guys should make it a point to make a good impression, instill some value in human life, while teaching safe practice. People need to be pragmatic about our nutty, deranged, loaded for bear populace of fucked up malefactors. Rather than continue fiddling over gun control, I propose better education. It needs to get more John Wayne.
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