No one hurt.
“Here is an attached photo of me as a member of the Chicago Vocational High School ROTC color guard circa 1968,” Sarge began. “Note that [names redacted] are shouldering a firearm that Gen. George S Patton called the ‘greatest battle implement ever devised;’ the US Rifle M1 caliber .30-06 a gas operated, clip fed, air-cooled semiautomatic shoulder weapon weighing 9.5 lbs. Yes that one, the primary infantry shoulder arm that won WW II.
“Our HIGH SCHOOL armory had 50 of these, two Browning Automatic Rifles, five M1 carbines, two .45 cal. semi auto M1911A1 pistols, and one M3 submachine gun,” he continued. “Similar armories were present at even INNER CITY High Schools like Lindbloom, Marshall, Farragutt and most every school that had a junior ROTC, and there was NEVER a school shooting or any one harmed by the presence of these lethal military weapons.
“When the drill team convened for practice before school, the senior instructor, a Special Forces Vietnam VVet SFC from 5th Army HQ would give the key to the arms rack to the Battalion Commander, a cadet colonel who was responsible for issuing the M1 rifles to us for drill practice,” Sarge explained. “He took his duties very seriously and we all respected his stern by the book leadership. HE DID NOT ALLOW ANY HORSEPLAY with the weapons, and misconduct could earn you a morning pumping out dozens of pushups ... We learned RESPECT for the power of the weapons and were imbued with a sense of responsibility and character that was earned by our correct and safe handling of these firearms. I know that this training instilled a sense of responsibility in ME.
“Can we return to this era?” Sarge asks, “Even I might hesitate a bit owing to the depravity that has been induced in so many of our youth owing to 50 years of cultural Marxism, moral relativism, sexual licentiousness, fatherless homes, mindless muticulturalism, gangsta rap, welfare entitlement, Marxist academia and journalism, Hollywood violence divorced from objective and transcendent moral truth and a thoroughgoing deconstruction of every societal institution and constitutional principle that made this country the greatest nation on earth.”
“I am a retired police officer, a Vietnam combat vet (Mech Inf squad leader and a tank commander with two different units of the 1st Bde of the 5th Mech. Inf on the DMZ, a 16 year vet of the Il ARNG) a state-certified police firearms instructor and an expatriate from the Greater Soviet of Cook County and Chicago, who is absolutely heartsick at the manner in which Democrats and liberals have run the great state of Illinois into the ground as they destroy liberty,” Sarge explained by way of his bona fides.
“Barack Obama was my state senator, and in 1994 I debated him on gun control laws on WLS-AM radio in Chicago along with Jim Leahy, a colleague of mine and chairman of the Republican Assembly of Illinois,” he continued. “Jim and I were associates and collaborators with the greatest conservative journalist in the Midwest, the late Tom Roeser, and I regularly appeared on his program “Political Shootout” on WLS 8900 AM on Sundays and other programming on WYLL FM and other assorted venues where we regularly debated liberal and Democrat luminaries from Illinois on his show. We confronted Obama with truth and fact and thoroughly defeated him as he spun lies and distortions in a pathetic attempt to justify a warped advocacy of his misguided anti-gun legislation.
http://www.examiner.com/article/patriot-veteran-and-retired-chicago-cop-tells-of-freer-safer-time
