Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
As a child, growing up in Wisconsin, I was raised in a hunting and fishing culture. I got my BB gun at 8, my first shotgun at 10, my first .22 at 11, and my first 30.06 at 12 years old. I became somewhat proficient with those weapons. I hunted with my Father, Uncles, Grandfather, and Great Uncles supervision to some success. Our Thanksgivng for the extended family of some 50 folks was supplied by us. It would feature venison, turkey, pheasant, goose, and duck. Back then, if a young man wanted to hunt without adult supervision one had to take a Hunter's Safety Course. Upon successful completion of that course one could hunt with long guns without adult supervison at 14 years old. I did, meaning both complete the course and hunt, lawfully, without adult supervison. I could lawfully carry and hunt with my gun. BTW the gun I used for whitetail was at one time a military weapon.
The Hunter's Safety Course was taught in Junior Highschool. That same Junior Highschool had a rifle team, just like it had a football team, a basketball team and a cross country team. Kids would walk to and from school carrying rifles. Now they had to be checked in at the office when one got there, but they did carry weapons. In fairness and full disclosure these were not high powered weapons by any means.
In woodshop class, a mandatory class for boys, we had three potential final projects. One was a gun rack for one's pickup as it was presumed one would probably be getting a pickup in the future and it was presumed one would own and need to transport guns.
In Highschool, in the fall, it was common to see vehicles students drove to school parked in the lot with full gun racks as they either had just come from hunting or were likely to be going out to do so after school. Kids with guns were not at all unusual or illegal.
During deer season tens upon tens of thousands of flatlanders from illinois would flood across our borders, carrying, naturally, weapons to engage in our hunt. The hunt was big business and well promoted. No one thought anything of persons crossing state lines with weapons. It was normal. It was encouraged in spite of the fact that many of those folks from Illinois could not tell a whitetail from a holstein.
Now, well now I am lead to believe that young adults cannot be armed, that crossing state lines with weapons is a sin and more importantly against the law, and that hunting is some sort of white privilege or perhaps cultural appropriation from native americans and that being engaged in such may even indicate something dark within one's very soul. Perhaps times have changed. Perhaps my direct knowledge of things from years ago, my direct experience is no longer relevant. Perhaps. Watching T.V., reading the news, I now learn that what I then knew the law to be is no longer the law. I am told that the practices then are no longer the practices. The whitetail are safe now from folks from Illinois as they will not be crossing the border armed for a hunt.
On an unrelated note one inserting themselves into chaos, one seeking out conflict, for excitement, ought not to then be able to claim they had their hands forced by that very chaos. This is, of course, a personal perspective, not a summary of the law.
The Hunter's Safety Course was taught in Junior Highschool. That same Junior Highschool had a rifle team, just like it had a football team, a basketball team and a cross country team. Kids would walk to and from school carrying rifles. Now they had to be checked in at the office when one got there, but they did carry weapons. In fairness and full disclosure these were not high powered weapons by any means.
In woodshop class, a mandatory class for boys, we had three potential final projects. One was a gun rack for one's pickup as it was presumed one would probably be getting a pickup in the future and it was presumed one would own and need to transport guns.
In Highschool, in the fall, it was common to see vehicles students drove to school parked in the lot with full gun racks as they either had just come from hunting or were likely to be going out to do so after school. Kids with guns were not at all unusual or illegal.
During deer season tens upon tens of thousands of flatlanders from illinois would flood across our borders, carrying, naturally, weapons to engage in our hunt. The hunt was big business and well promoted. No one thought anything of persons crossing state lines with weapons. It was normal. It was encouraged in spite of the fact that many of those folks from Illinois could not tell a whitetail from a holstein.
Now, well now I am lead to believe that young adults cannot be armed, that crossing state lines with weapons is a sin and more importantly against the law, and that hunting is some sort of white privilege or perhaps cultural appropriation from native americans and that being engaged in such may even indicate something dark within one's very soul. Perhaps times have changed. Perhaps my direct knowledge of things from years ago, my direct experience is no longer relevant. Perhaps. Watching T.V., reading the news, I now learn that what I then knew the law to be is no longer the law. I am told that the practices then are no longer the practices. The whitetail are safe now from folks from Illinois as they will not be crossing the border armed for a hunt.
On an unrelated note one inserting themselves into chaos, one seeking out conflict, for excitement, ought not to then be able to claim they had their hands forced by that very chaos. This is, of course, a personal perspective, not a summary of the law.
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