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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (188475)	12/4/2006 12:07:54 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) of 793964

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack. It's too true to be funny; it's tragically sad. I can vouch for the truth of it. When I was in the eighth grade (1957-58) our class was split up for a day. The girls went off with the other teacher (who parenthetically was a pioneering woman pilot whose portrait now graces the Airport in Missoula Montana along with other aviation pioneers). The boys stayed in our room where our teacher demonstrated how to handload a .30-06 shell. A year or so later, I earned enough money trapping marten in the high country to buy my first big bore pistol. This teacher came out to my house to help me set up my own handloading outfit so I could afford to shoot it. I had that pistol along with an identical one owned by my trapping buddy in his truck in the school parking lot so we could go out to the target range after school. Most kids had firearms in their cars or trucks if they intended to go hunting after school. Nothing was ever said about it. Our graduating eighth grade class published a Last Will, where every student willed a special attribute to a seventh grader. I willed my "Knowledge of Rifle Ballistics." This was published in the school newspaper, and nothing was ever said about it. Fast forward to my Junior year speech class: The assignment was "give an effective sales talk." I brought my six inch Ruana hunting knife to work, opened some tin cans with it and showed how it was still sharp enough to shave kindling for a fire. I got an "A" for the speech. Every day at school I carried a Case jack knife and a Marbles waterproof match case full of kitchen matches in my pocket. I never got them out, but if I had no doubt nothing would have been said. Frankly, I am really sick about the deterioration of our rights and responsibilities. Let me rephrase that. The deterioration of rational thinking and responsibility in our society is sick.

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