A Deafening Silence

[gejohnston]

35. yeah sure, if you say so.

I know it because I've taken the trouble to do the research. I've published summaries of and references to it more than once in this forum.

I don't remember seeing of these summaries and references you refer too. Might have been before my time.

I don't actually feel compelled to do it all over again every time somebody asks how I know something they would know themselves if they bothered to find out.

I don't really feel like doing your homework, so I guess that makes us even.

A child in the 50s and 60s did not live in a culture in which handguns were commonplace, glorified, played with, stored in shoeboxes in closets or in nightstand drawers, kept under the counter at the corner store, shown off in the schoolyard, carried around in public by ordinary people. A kid in the 50s or 60s who was in contact with firearms was a kid whose parents or grandparents used firearms for hunting or for pest and predator control in rural areas, or possibly participated in shooting sports through school (a situation I suspect was less common than all the reminiscences we see here would suggest). No handguns involved. No handgun culture.

the only thing you get correct are concealed carry laws outside of Vermont and Washington state (which was shall issue). Rifle clubs also existed in NYC and other cities. Oh yeah, in rural areas we hunted on our own at a young age.