[BearwWthoutBorders] NRA Press Conference

[Hunter Gray]

I've just finished listening to the NRA press conference.  I liked it -- no surprise on that, I imagine -- and I thought the spokespersons did a quite effective job in what's obviously an emotionally charged national atmosphere.  I think the NRA's organizational initiative aimed at deterring and/or dealing immediately re attacks on schools around the country -- via trained guards at each school that wishes such protection -- makes sense. It would be essentially volunteer -- volunteer -- in nature, provided by often retired people drawn from appropriate vocations, and trained by NRA specialists.  Police response, even under the best of circumstances, can be too slow and arming faculty and students is very risky. (I've never seen an armed classroom as desirable.)  This would require no Federal or even local funding.

The NRA, in addition to its defense of the Second Amendment and related dimensions, and a strong focus on match shooting and wildlife conservation, has a very long history of top flight firearms training of law enforcement officers around the country.  Its long-standing and successful gun safety courses -- the Eddie Eagle program -- are found in a myriad of United States high schools.

Brought back personal memories of guarding Movement offices and our homes (including this home, right here ) -- and certainly of students and faculty guarding Tougaloo College during the long epochs of night-rider Klan-type terrorism.

H.

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)

I have always lived and worked in the Borderlands.

See my extensive Movement Life Interview, done by Bruce
Hartford of Civil Rights Movement Veterans:
http://hunterbear.org/HUNTER%20BEAR%20INTERVIEW%20CRMV.htm
And see my reflection ON BEING A MILITANT AND RADICAL
ORGANIZER -- AND AN EFFECTIVE ONE:
http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm

The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Expanded in Fall 2012. Photos. Material on our Native
background.)  And see Personal Background Narrative: 
http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm  (Updated into 2012) 

For the new (11/2011) and expanded/updated
edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- 
with a new and substantial introduction by me.
 http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm
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