{"id":3123,"date":"2021-03-31T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2021-03-31T19:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:59:15","slug":"better-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/better-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Better days"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted on this before, but…in NYC? SRSLY<\/a>?!?<\/p>\n

This month, more than 100,000 city public school\u00a0kids walked out to protest gun violence\u00a0\u2014 but last century some students attended class armed with their rifles and practiced shooting on school grounds.<\/p>\n

Many of the city\u2019s public high schools had shooting clubs and a few even had gun ranges on their premises, according to accounts from the Department of Education and others.<\/p>\n

There were at least three shooting ranges in public schools, the DOE said, including Curtis HS on Staten Island and Erasmus Hall HS in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Another inside Far Rockaway HS in Queens, which closed in 2011, is shown in a black-and-white archival photo from May 1929 displaying a compartmentalized gun range with at least five windows to shoot from and cranks for students to pull the targets back and forth.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo accommodate the kids, they even made them these little pull-out benches they can kneel on to shoot from that position or even lie down to shoot,\u201d said Darren Leung, owner of Westside Rifle & Pistol Range in Chelsea, describing the equipment seen in the 89-year-old photo. \u201cWhat an excellent design.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in New York City, virtually every public high school had a shooting club up until 1969,\u201d gun-rights advocate and academic John Lott Jr. wrote in his 2003 book, \u201cThe Bias Against Guns.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an incredibly bizarre twist also noted by Glenn<\/a>, this was also an era when school shootings were unheard of. Why, one could almost be forgiven for concluding that the modern-day phenomenon of government-school mass murders might possibly be attributable to some cause other than guns!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I know, I know, that’s just crazy talk there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted on this before, but…in NYC? SRSLY?!? This month, more than 100,000 city public school\u00a0kids walked out to protest gun violence\u00a0\u2014 but last century some students attended class armed with their rifles and practiced shooting on school grounds. Many of the city\u2019s public high…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Better days<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,29,61,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-history","category-believe-it-or-else","category-comeandtakethem","category-hmmm","category-tales-of-the-gun","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-29-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-100-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}