Professor Walter E. Williams doesn’t think
so. “When I attended primary and secondary school — during the
1940s and ‘50s — one didn’t hear of the kind of shooting mayhem
that’s become routine today. Why? It surely wasn’t because of
strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog
shows 35 pages of firearm advertisements. People just sent in their
money, and a firearm was shipped. Dr. John Lott, author of ‘More
Guns, Less Crime,’ reports that until the 1960s, some New York City
public high schools had shooting clubs where students competed in
citywide shooting contests for university scholarships. They carried
their rifles to school on the subways and, upon arrival, turned them
over to their homeroom teacher or the gym coach and retrieved their
rifles after school for target practice.
Virginia’s
rural areas had a long tradition of high-school students going
hunting in the morning before school and sometimes storing their
rifles in the trunks of their cars that were parked on school
grounds. Often a youngster’s 12th or 14th birthday present was a
shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to him by his father.” But
today, liberals are so frightened of guns in ANYBODY’S hands
(except cops or government agents) that they don’t want guns
anywhere N EAR a school, so they make ALL schools “no-gun zones,”
wihich ASSURES that one day a “crazy” will come to a school and
shoot it up because he knows there will be NO GUNS there to oppose
him, or if there are, they will be in the hands of a uniformed cop
who can be located and killed FIRST. That’s why school shootings
have become so “routine” these days. (Walter E. Williams)
http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2014/02/23/opinion/editorials/doc5307dae30370c921608285.txt
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