18 Feb 22
 
“I’ve looked all around, and I’ve yet to see a single person wearing a ‘Build Back Better’ baseball cap”
 
Anon
 
American liberals have spent the last four decades deliberately demonizing the Art of Marksmanship and thus driving honorable activities such as target riflery and field hunting out of high schools and colleges.
 
Aging devotees of the 1960’s SDS and Weather Underground, who are now in-power as leftist Democrat politicians, continue to press hard in an effort to convert our beloved USA into their vision of a ‘Marxist Paradise,’ where state-approved criminals are encouraged to commit violent crimes against their political opponents, where good and evil are both ‘relative,’ and where good and decent, productive non-criminals are constantly called “racists,” as they are relentlessly stripped of their rights, freedom, and dignity.
 
Organized rifle teams and hunting clubs have long-since been summarily banished from American educational institutions by mostly unelected, gun-phobic leftist ghouls, desperately clinging to cushy positions of administrative and executive power.
 
Today, talking about guns, even in hushed whispers, will get an otherwise good student instantly labeled a racist/terrorist, and summarily thrown out of school forevermore!
 
Today, elementary school students, when not being dogmatized by unionized teachers that Karl Marx, Joe Stalin, and Mao Zedong are mankind’s greatest benefactors, are grilled by teachers and administrators in an effort to discover which of their parents own guns, so their names can go on a “List.” Students are then piously lectured that only racists own guns, and that gun-owners sometimes even use personal pronouns!
 
In the interim, a few of us are still devotedly practicing, preserving, and advancing our Art!
 
Only the venerable need apply!
 
“If we lived in a State where virtue were profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And, we’d live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes.
 
But since in fact, we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust, and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice, and thought, we have to choose, to be human at all.
 
We must stand-fast sometimes, even at the risk of being heroes.”
 
Sir Thomas More, from Robert Bolt’s 1954 play, “A Man for All Seasons”
 
/John