re: #236 OldLineTexan

Yes.

It wasn’t allowed into our bitter, clingy typical white school, due to parent protests.

I didn’t use it. My kids were taught the old-fashioned way.

But the message, completely neutral on anything but SAFETY, was drowned out by the messenger, teh evul NRA.

/sound at all familiar?

Basic family rule was, never touch a gun without Daddy present, never touch Daddy’s gun locker AT ALL.

To the point that, well into my twenties, I didn’t like to have to move the gun locker while, say, cleaning, or looking for the spare gloves. Eddie was just for fun, because my dad had a membership and they mailed it. He quit when the first President Bush did, I think.

Of course at the age of three I was also cleaning my father’s service revolver, because he had discovered that I thought it was fun, while he thought it was a grim chore.