A lot of these actually can have a positive outcome. Just think of the bad PR the NDSU is going to receive for the absurd measure banning fencing – and it is all self-inflicted.
I don’t agree about the main point of the article. It looked pretty bad in the ’70’s and ’80’s, but these days it seems to me gun control is dead. And all that indoctrination kids receive comes at a cost to the state: the further from reality they go, the less legitimate they appear. And a single shot at the range can eliminate the entire amount of state indoctrination. Take a newbie shooting, that’s the ticket.
LarryAMay 19, 2014 1:30 pm
I read it earlier, and already included it in my blog list. Great article.
I think I’ve been around too long. As I went through the list I kept thinking about other moral panics you could have added, like the Japanese internment, then realized you’re writing an article, not a book.
The other huge panic of the day was against “switchblade” knives. Because somehow those zippy knives were making those comic-reading JD’s more dangerous.
Switchblades were banned because of the late 1950s stabbing crime wave “documented” in Blackboard Jungle and West Side Story. Just like all the “ninja” WMDs in the martial arts movies.
Western civilization will die, whimpering, when everything comes in plastic bubble packs, and you aren’t permitted anything sharp enough to open them.
Take a newbie shooting, that’s the ticket.
Support the NRA Foundation. Friends of NRA events. 97,000 basic firearm instructors. (8,000 of them female.) Women on Target, 4-H shooting sports, Appleseed, Refuse to be a Victim, Eddie Eagle. That’s the future in the U.S.
Great article. Loved it.
Here’s another:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenatchee_child_abuse_prosecutions
A lot of these actually can have a positive outcome. Just think of the bad PR the NDSU is going to receive for the absurd measure banning fencing – and it is all self-inflicted.
I don’t agree about the main point of the article. It looked pretty bad in the ’70’s and ’80’s, but these days it seems to me gun control is dead. And all that indoctrination kids receive comes at a cost to the state: the further from reality they go, the less legitimate they appear. And a single shot at the range can eliminate the entire amount of state indoctrination. Take a newbie shooting, that’s the ticket.
I read it earlier, and already included it in my blog list. Great article.
I think I’ve been around too long. As I went through the list I kept thinking about other moral panics you could have added, like the Japanese internment, then realized you’re writing an article, not a book.
The other huge panic of the day was against “switchblade” knives. Because somehow those zippy knives were making those comic-reading JD’s more dangerous.
Switchblades were banned because of the late 1950s stabbing crime wave “documented” in Blackboard Jungle and West Side Story. Just like all the “ninja” WMDs in the martial arts movies.
Western civilization will die, whimpering, when everything comes in plastic bubble packs, and you aren’t permitted anything sharp enough to open them.
Take a newbie shooting, that’s the ticket.
Support the NRA Foundation. Friends of NRA events. 97,000 basic firearm instructors. (8,000 of them female.) Women on Target, 4-H shooting sports, Appleseed, Refuse to be a Victim, Eddie Eagle. That’s the future in the U.S.
Other parts of the world: Nigerian villagers fight off attacks by Boko Haram
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/world/africa/nigeria-girls-abducted/