Every time there's
a shooting tragedy, there are more calls for gun control. Let's examine a few
historical facts. By 1910, the National Rifle Association had succeeded in
establishing 73 NRA-affiliated high-school rifle clubs. The 1911 second edition
of the Boy Scout Handbook made qualification in NRA's junior marksmanship
program a prerequisite for obtaining a BSA merit badge in marksmanship. In
1918, the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. established its own Winchester Junior
Rifle Corps. The program grew to 135,000 members by 1925. In New York City, gun
clubs were started at Boys, Curtis, Commercial, Manual Training and Stuyvesant
high schools. With so many guns in the hands of youngsters, did we see today's
level of youth violence?........Customs, traditions, moral values and rules of etiquette, not just laws and government regulations, are what make for a civilized society, not restraints on inanimate objects........In other words, it's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior......To Read More.....
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