OPAVE Gun Control

OPAVE: Gun Control Prefix

One Saturday morning, as he was leaving his house to go hunting, my father – who was then 15 – asked his mother “What’s for Dinner?” She replied, “potatoes and cabbage and what ever you shoot today”. On the morning of my 14 th birthday my father announced that he bought me a 12-gauge shotgun for my birthday and would pick it up the next day at the hardware store in Taunton.

But that afternoon I just could not wait, so I hitch-hiked the 7 miles from Dighton to Taunton. I went into the hardware store, identified myself, and they handed me the gun and two boxes of shells. Carrying the gun in full view, I walked back through the center of Taunton and hitch-hiked home. I got the two rides I needed to get home: yes, both me and my gun. That was a time in America when NO wackos went into schools and shot and killed defenseless children.

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