This message was from PAUL NIXON to ALL,
originally in conference Guns
and was forwarded to you by PAUL MUNOZ.
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 * Crossposted from: FREEDOM'S_VOICE
From Rick Destephans:
What was it that Stalin said about allowing him to educate a
generation, and he shall rule the world?  Or was that some other
despot?
Francis put me on line with Joan Payne, a Mesa City Council babe
who happens to be a mother of a child who attends Johnson
Elementary School (ph # 898-7993). That number will become
important later on.
As a reading assignment, a 5th grade teacher, "Esther Sobeck"
have the students a book entitled "The Rifle" by Gary Paulson.
The naive part of me thought that this might actually be a pro-
gun work. How nice that someone would be putting forth a message
that was contrary to the PC crowd.  I soon had my child-like
hopes dashed and thrown out like so many spent primers in that
little cup on the underside of my Dillon 550 B.
"The Rifle" is the story of an antique black powder rifle
manufactured around the 1860's.  The book traces the ownership
of that rifle from one person to the next.  Finally it ends up
as a curio relic hanging above the fireplace mantle as decoration
to a loving father's home. But danger lurks.
It is approaching Christmas and the season brings chilly air
and family gatherings.  The fireplace is lit and casts a warm
glow.  But, as we all know, hot air rises. And the intense heat
of one too many Duraflame logs is carried exactly where only the
devil himself would want it:  to the very rifle which has hung
there, waiting.  And unknown to all, is that the muzzle-loader
has been charged all this time with black powder and mini-ball.
The temperature rises.  Rises.  RISES. Until the flash point of
the ancient (but somehow still explosive) black powder is
reached.  A loud BOOM!  The round ball is sent through the air,
through the outside wall of the home and into the wall of an
adjacent dwelling.  But it is not stopped there.
It contiues through the Christmas tree where little Johnny is
decorating it.  Despite traveling all that distance, through
the wall, the bullet is still zipping at "over 1,000 feet per
second."  It crashes into the boy's head "just above his left
eye, destroying his brain before exiting and lodging in the wall."
To make a long story short, one of the parents becomes distraught
and commmits suicide. And one man who reads about the story in
the paper realized that that rifle was once his, so many years
before.
The rifle is later dismantled, and the world is made just a
little safer from the pernicous behavior of antique assault
rifles.
LET ME GIVE YOU THAT CONTACT INFO JUST IN CASE YOU WOULD LIKE TO
VOICE YOUR OPINION-----
School:  Johnson Elementary Skool
         3807 E. Pueblo Ave.
         Mese, Arizona 85206
Phone:   602-898-7993
Propagandist:  Esther Sobeck
Book:    "The Rifle" by Gary Paulson
You will be calling and writing, won't you?
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later,
Rick
--
"Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the
people at large than to have them properly armed. A. Hamilton.
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed." Madison
"The great object is that every man be armed..." Patrick Henry
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