This past Friday at the Houston Property Rights Association luncheon, a long time HPRA member, Ronnie Samms, brought in Raw Prints, his 1961 yearbook from Landrum Junior High School. The reason he brought his junior high school yearbook to the gathering was because he wanted to show us that there was a Rifle Club at the school! Guns were kept at the school, in fact they were locked up in the shop. According to Ronnie, the club had after school shooting practices.
Ronnie was not a member of the club, but he did know some people who were. At some point he told me that he would send me a photo copy of the photos that were taken of students who were members of the club. I did see the picture. There were some 20 students who were kneeling down, holding their rifles up above and out in front of them. If I do get the photo copies, I'll rewrite this entry to link to the image.
Needless to say, much has changed. As another HPRA member noted, how much legislation gets passed on the grounds of we have to do X because we need to be sure that X never happens again.In this case, guns were taken out of schools, probably on grounds that parents would sue the district in the event that any violence would take place on account of guns being on the school premises.
Enough for now.
Wizard