[Rocky7]

Here's an excerpt. It's worth reading the entire article.


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Many of us, even in Urban environments, had schools with a range in them.
Lane Technical High School had not only a range, but M-14 battle rifles for
it's ROTC Program, and the rifles were in working order. We marched in
parades and on the campus with real, working rifles in those days. Now they
are banned from there even in the ROTC program, and now we have school
shootings.

If you want to teach children how to responsibly handle dangerous weapons,
you will instill in them a respect for those tools, and you will lessen the
mystique of them. You will also begin to transfer the awesome responsibility
of adulthood to children as they mature into the ability to handle that
responsibility. But if you try to prevent drowning by banning water, rather
than teach them to swim, the results will continue to under whelm our sense
of decency and proportion...........


http://jpfo.org/articles-assd03/hell...rol-debate.htm