Intersection: Post-Tinkerer Generation & Gun Culture
By Greg Camp
Opinion
Fayetteville, AR –-(Ammoland.com)- I am not so very old, but I’ve been around long enough to remember a world that was mostly analog. Telephones had an actual dial, books were to be found by consulting small paper cards in drawers, and RadioShack was stocked with bins of parts for making all manner of electronic gadgets. My parents bought me a shortwave receiver with vacuum tubes—known as boat anchors—and the BBC played the “Lillibullero” march at the top of the hour on the forty-nine meter band.
Good times. Or so the softening effect of memory makes it, though the Internet was the tool of research facilities only, carry licenses were the privilege of the politically connected, if they could be obtained at all, and the once and future threat of Russia was still on its first go around. This fit of nostalgia came upon me recently while I was reflecting on conversations that I have with gun control advocates. Many of them are young. That is meant as no insult—we all start somewhere. It’s instead an observation that they are in so many cases the …Read the Rest
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