Did you have access to guns when you were in high school?

[hunter]

46. What's the West got to do with it?

In my Wild West family fools and their guns were soon parted.

My great grandmothers were all fierce women of the Wild West who considered most men fools. My wife's Native American / Wild West family had similar matriarchal traditions.

Women hunted, women owned property. Their husbands tended to be dreamers.

My dad and my father-in-law both served in the military during the Korean War and it was just the luck of the draw they didn't end up in Korea. My wife's dad was a Navy medic assigned to the Marines. My dad was a nearsighted Radar O'Reilly medical clerk. No guns. (My father-in-law was used as a guinea pig in atomic bomb testing.)

My ancestors ended up in the Western U.S.A. because they were Pacifists and other sorts of religious heretics. They were all here in the U.S.A. during the Civil War but they were so far out West it hardly affected them at all.

Two bullshit racist narratives are "Southern Pride" and "Guns of the Wild West."

Killing and oppressing people who are not white is nothing to be proud of. Vigilantism is nothing to be proud of.

Hell, shooting bears and wolves is nothing to be proud of.

Gun fetishes are disgusting.

I'm with you about hunting. It's become more dangerous. There are too many fools out there with guns. The density of them is much greater than it used to be. Sometimes you hear automatic weapon fire out in the countryside. Who needs a military style weapon to hunt?