Marines tell it like it is...With some hurrahs too
I found this on a cool Yahoo! Group post:
"Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the
other day and you have to read his reply to the lady who interviewed
him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about
gun laws you gotta love this!
This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a
portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female
broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was sponsoring
a Boy Scout Troop he brought to his military base.
FEMALE REPORTER:
So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these
young boys while they're visiting your base?
GENERAL REINWALD:
We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, and shooting.
FEMALE REPORTER:
Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
GENERAL REINWALD:
Not at all, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
FEMALE REPORTER:
Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be
teaching children?
GENERAL REINWALD:
No we are very safety conscious and will be teaching them proper
rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE REPORTER:
But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL REINWALD:
Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not
one, are you?
The radio went silent and the interview ended.
You gotta love the Marines!"
Way too cool! I like people who shoot you straight, say what they mean and cut the bullshit. Maybe even show you how stupid you are being. I guess even the reporter was straight....Even with the leading questions. Ugh. Gun safety saves lives, especially when children are put into a situation with a gun (oh it will happen!). They will know how to handle themselves, know the dangerous end, and either grab an adult, unload the gun or leave. As you know, people kill with ANY tool including poison, gas, nylons, phone cords.... Whatever! (Gun control is being able to hit your target!) Anyway, Hunters Safety courses should be part of every school curriculum. Even if they just use BB or pellet guns as was in the course I took LONG ago. Kids don't know the danger if you hide them from it. I remember some kids on my block as a child, that played with live bullets on their GI Joe costumes one year. My kid knows what a bullet looks like, and knows not to touch to get an adult. Hopefully the adult knows WTF is going on. Semper Fi!
"Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the
other day and you have to read his reply to the lady who interviewed
him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about
gun laws you gotta love this!
This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a
portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female
broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was sponsoring
a Boy Scout Troop he brought to his military base.
FEMALE REPORTER:
So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these
young boys while they're visiting your base?
GENERAL REINWALD:
We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, and shooting.
FEMALE REPORTER:
Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
GENERAL REINWALD:
Not at all, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
FEMALE REPORTER:
Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be
teaching children?
GENERAL REINWALD:
No we are very safety conscious and will be teaching them proper
rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE REPORTER:
But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL REINWALD:
Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not
one, are you?
The radio went silent and the interview ended.
You gotta love the Marines!"
Way too cool! I like people who shoot you straight, say what they mean and cut the bullshit. Maybe even show you how stupid you are being. I guess even the reporter was straight....Even with the leading questions. Ugh. Gun safety saves lives, especially when children are put into a situation with a gun (oh it will happen!). They will know how to handle themselves, know the dangerous end, and either grab an adult, unload the gun or leave. As you know, people kill with ANY tool including poison, gas, nylons, phone cords.... Whatever! (Gun control is being able to hit your target!) Anyway, Hunters Safety courses should be part of every school curriculum. Even if they just use BB or pellet guns as was in the course I took LONG ago. Kids don't know the danger if you hide them from it. I remember some kids on my block as a child, that played with live bullets on their GI Joe costumes one year. My kid knows what a bullet looks like, and knows not to touch to get an adult. Hopefully the adult knows WTF is going on. Semper Fi!
posted by Rocky Mountain Security Group at 12:38 AM
1 Comments:
I totally agree with that. My dad is a sheriff, and an expert marksman. Yet, as a kid, my parents chose to hide us from guns, whether in movies, music...anything having to do with reality...
All it did was create a fascination...and you bet your ass I figured out how to get into my dad's gun drawer - a few times. Of course, I didn't want to do anything but touch it and look at it because I had never done so before. But what if I was more disturbed than I was? What if I took it? To work? To school? To myself? Another sheriff's kid we knew blew his head off with his dad's own sidearm playing Russian Roulette. If we had all been taught to respect guns, I don't think that would have happened.
It's the same argument that people had when they tried to pull "Grand Theft Auto III" off the video game market. One person can choose to take a car and just drive. You even earn money by helping the police catch criminals or stop a robbery in progress. Then again, you can run over people, kill cops, pick up a hooker, rock the car, then beat her to death and steal your money back. Same game. Same controller. But it depends on who's behind the controllers. My hats off to the Marine who had the gutts to say that. Too funny!!
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