Everett True promotes gun safety (September 23, 1918)
Everett True promotes gun safety (September 23, 1918)
Printed 106 years ago today in The Chattanooga News.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
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I don't like guns, but if you have to go hunting you should at least know how to shoot straight.
Also note: the list of the war dead from recent World War I actions on the same page as the comic. The US had entered in April 1917. By September 1918, Germany's last great offensive had failed and the Allied Hundred Days Offensive was in progress; this would lead to the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and the Treaty of Versailles the following year. By that point over 20 million people will have died and about the same number wounded.
I really think gun licenses should have a similar process to driver's licenses. When I got my driver's license, I had to do 32 hours of classroom teaching, then 8 hours of student driving, and then pass a written and practical test. A gun license should be the same, or more stringent, and also require renewal through an office like the DMV every few years. And if the licensing instructor doesn't think you'll be a safe gun owner at the end of the test, then no license for you, go back to class and you can take the test again in 6 months.
I think this would be a lot more effective gun control than all the piecemeal regulations about various types or technical features of guns.
In my state you can take a class that gets a special marker put on your driver license forever (took it when I was maybe 10 and it's marked today) but so far as I gather it's just some sort of trophy badge rather than having any function. Even something like that as a pre-req wouldn't be a bad start when the baseline now is just don't be a felon.
Ah the war to end all wars as it was known. The great war! You don't need anymore wars after THIS world war!
.........why are you guys calling it World War 1??! THERE'S A SEQUAL???
Unfortunately, most of WW1 dead were from diseases, followed closely by artillery.
Thanks for this! I also noted the ad for Asbestos Insulation for your heating pipes.
Not to mention the newsvertisement for a vegetable compound titled: "Woman Works 15 Hours a Day". "I get up in the morning at four o'clock, do my housework, then go to a factory and work all day, come home and get supper and feel good"!
One of those vegetables is probably cocaine
but if you have to go hunting you should at least know how to shoot straight.
I'm almost certain that every single State requires passing a Hunter Safety program before you can get any kind of Hunting License. The laws have changed a lot since 1917.