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"How a gun-hating family from Billerica produced an Olympic shooter."
An article in, of all things, the Boston Globe.
""I was very anti-gun when my kids were little," says Scherer's mother, Sue, who works a number of different jobs, including cleaning and painting houses, running a day care, and organizing Jeopardy!-style entertainment for nursing homes. "I always thought, `Guns are bad. Guns kill people.' So, I didn't want my kids to have anything to do with guns.""
Her son wound up at West Point, and on the US Olympic shooting team; her daughter narrowly missed being on the team.
Cackle. We're like zombies. There's no stopping us. Or maybe it's as P.J. O'Rourke says. All kids have a drive to shock their parents. This is a problem for kids today, many of whom were conceived during drug-laden public sex at Woodstock; there's no way to shock your parents anymore. Except by enlisting. Esp. in the US Marine Corps, so you can come home and tell them you like the doctrine of "every man a rifleman."
Hat tip to reader Jack Anderson.....
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My mother made my father get rid of the .357 Nighthawk they had for self defence in the early 80's when I was born. Sad, I would have liked for them to hold onto it and give it to me. Mom doesn't lik guns, da is indifferent I think (occasionally goes hunting)
Oh well, I grew up to have a fascination with machine guns.
"Kids conceived at Woodstock would likely have rebellious teenage children of their own now."
I know it's off topic but I know personally of a case like this. Mom was a hippy, swinger in the 70's, and her daughter is like her now in some aspects (and a friend of mine, looks exactly like her mom did in the 70's, down to the bright red hair and milky white skin).
Sometimes the acorn falls far from the tree, sometimes it doesn't.
Props to the mom for letting her common sense and good judgment overcome her bias against guns, by allowing her son to enroll in the local chapter of the Massachusetts Rifle Association to learn how to shoot safely and properly.
MRA is a sportsman's club and, as far as I'm aware of, unaffiliated with any other club. MRA (club link, I'm not a member, nor do I speak for them).
"I always thought, `Guns are bad. Guns kill people.' So, I didn't want my kids to have anything to do with guns."
Why don't people apply this logic to other things that kill people? Like knives, cars etc?
How can you possibly carve a turkey without fearing for your life?
Kids conceived at Woodstock would be having their own kids graduate from high school by now.
Woodstock was in 1969. The kids would have been born in 1970, graduated in 1988, and if they had kids immediately after graduating, their kids would be 2 years out of high school.
At any rate, the babies of Woodstock would be 38 years old today. Kinda late to be asserting your independence, but better late than never, I guess.
"Mom doesn't lik guns..."
Neither do most women, outside of a very specific sort a video.
This young man chose rifle as his sport. Living in Massachusetts it would have been impossible for him to choose pistol. Olympic-style competitive pistols were illegal in Massachusetts until very recently. The state has a law requiring that any manufacturer who wants to sell a particular model in the state must submit several samples for "safety testing," which is destructive. Manufacturers of pistols which have a very limited market, and are quite expensive, are not going to bother to submit samples for testing. Accordingly, they could not be offered for sale in MA. This has been a huge problem for the MIT pistol team. Governor Romney, to his credit, signed a bill that exempted those pistols from the testing requirement shortly before he left office. I believe, however, that they are illegal in Maryland due to their lack of the required integral lock, and will be illegal in New Jersey when the "smart guns" law goes into effect. Unfortunately, the Heller decision did not address whether or not we have the right to own appropriate firearms for sporting purposes, so these laws would probably survive incorporation of Heller.
That whole Woodstock thing belongs, well, in Woodstock. Makes about as much sense the DC gun ban did.
TO: David Hardy
RE: Stopping the 'Zombies'
"We're like zombies. There's no stopping us." -- David Hardy
There IS a way to stop the 'zombies'. One well-placed bullet at a time. Just like the way we can stop the jihadis.
But in order to do that effectively, you need to pick up {HORROR!} a 'gun'.
RE: Other Options
"Or maybe it's as P.J. O'Rourke says. All kids have a drive to shock their parents. This is a problem for kids today, many of whom were conceived during drug-laden public sex at Woodstock; there's no way to shock your parents anymore. Except by enlisting. Esp. in the US Marine Corps, so you can come home and tell them you like the doctrine of "every man a rifleman."" -- David Hardy
Interesting point, that. Possibly VERY likely as young men and women tend to do just that; in order to break with their parents.
Another option....
....instead of Marines, whom I respect as comrades-in-arms on a par with my own flavor....
....consider Airborne-Ranger.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[God is alive....and airborne-ranger qualified. -- Chaplain at the US Army Airborne School]
This story does look like it has elements of youthful rebellion and counterculture. It makes perfect sense. In the wider World, Western World at least, the erstwhile Leftist/Liberals are well on the way to becoming the Establishment and the conversely the people with certain Conservative values the anti-establishment rebels.
Liberals have become the new religious moralist, albeit as followers of the fashionable new pseudo-scientific religions like Environmentalism and Multiculturalism. Liberals are increasingly and openly promoting government and societal control over the lives of the individuals, as a means to solve their various pet problems. In their hubris they unabashedly call for remaking of the Earth over and above their longtime efforts to remake the World. Liberals with their almost complete take over of the mass media seem to be now not only dictating what is “cool” but also are but also what is “moral”. This, makes many feel that the mainstream society, its culture, arts, entertainment and quite constrictive, tedious and somehow hollow and ripe for a counter culture revolution.
The P.J. O'Rourke comment is a generation off.
Kids conceived at Woodstock would likely have rebellious teenage children of their own now.