develping new respect for Americans

Doc Hoy. Your European's attitude about the lack of sophistication in the pioneer towns was also shared by big city Americans in the 1870s-1890s. In some towns, the town folk were painfully aware of this and built opera houses, albeit small ones, to prove they were just as worthy as their big city cousins. Of course, this doesn't explain the Sante Fe Open Air Opera of today, but it may explain how Saint John Moses Browning from Ogden whistled some tune from Gounard's Faust.
 
the last conflict

Mikthestick, the last armed conflict with the British was in 1812. The British sacked Washington D.C. and burned the White House, it's like Buckingham Palace.
 
The US and England almost came to blows on some island between Vancouver and Seattle. Somebody shot someone else's pig and tempers flared. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed.

During the Spanish Anerican War a German ship was taking a position to support the Spanish line. The British ship then maneuvered to the tail of the American line. The British captain said he proposed to teach the German some manners. The German ship then veered off and assumed the position of a neutral observer.

Former enemies, now friends.
 
my relitives came to america from germany,england and irland to try and better things for their families only to get sucked up in the american civil war (not one ever owned a slave)and after that if you didn,t call them americans there was going to be a fight (all seven were members of the GAR). this pic is of my ggg grandfather,s country estate in 1859 in the wilds of central pa. eastbank.
 
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4V50, yes,most of them,ricketts artillery, 28th. infantry, 155th infantry,48th. infantry all pa. units of the GAR. of course i never knew them,but my grandfather grew up with them and one lived with him and my grandmother untill his death and i talked to my grandfather and listend to him relate things they related to him. it was indeed a hard war. eastbank.
 
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Some friends of mine I met through the Boy Scouts are from England. They received their citizenship a few months ago. The father bought his son a Rossi combi-rifle kit because he was interested in shooting with the other Scouts in CMP. The dad had never owned or shot any gun before. After the CMP First Shots intro, they were a lot better educated about safety and guns in general. We had a practice and then a match after lunch. He came in second place, even though he ended up laying in a fire ant bed during the prone part of the match. His dad got to shoot another friend's .380 after the match. Hopefully, they'll come over on weekends so we can practice together and shoot.

We're trying to make sure all the boys involved with our shooting sports go through the NRA Basic classes, both pistol and rifle. We're strictly following the BSA range safety rules with more than the minimums of instructors and safety officers. We have several parents and leaders trained for both.

MS doesn't require any sort of class for CCW any more, but the NRA Advanced Pistol Instructor/Safety Officer course qualifies you to have an "Enhanced CCW" which allows CCW holders to carry concealed in court houses and other state regulated places.

We're also going to drum up interest in NRA Blackpowder shooting and shotguns, so the boys (and parents) will get as well rounded into guns and safety as we can get them.
 
If you have a lot of folk handling, shooting and owning guns then it just follows that a small percentage of'm will not respect the gun, be careless and or just plain stupid. It's like if enough people post on a subject then a few will say something that will make other uncomfortable. We try to gently correct those of'm around us and encourage them to do better.
 
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