Major General Peter Cosgrove is an Australian. GeneralCosgrove was being interviewed on the radio. Read his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you have to love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. This is a portion of an interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters. FEMALE INTERVIEWER:So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base? GENERAL COSGROVE: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting. FEMALE INTERVIEWER:Shooting!!! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it? GENERAL COSGROVE: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range. FEMALE INTERVIEWER:Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children? GENERAL COSGROVE: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm. FEMALE INTERVIEWER:But you're equipping them to become violent killers. GENERAL COSGROVE:Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you? The radiocast went silent for 46 seconds and when it returned, the interview was over.
How many individuals are born with genetic defects that result in the specific brain chemistry that makes them simply incapable of exercising basic critical thinking skills later in life, and unable to do anything beyond simply parrot what others tell them to say because it sounds catchy to them?
CLAIM A general finds a good comeback when asked about the wisdom of teaching Boy Scouts to shoot. See Example( s ) RATING FALSE ORIGIN As apposite as this tale of Boy Scouts and firearms training might be, it’s purely a fabrication and not an excerpt from a real interview. It began circulating on the Internet in 1999 as a quote attributed to an “LTG Reinwald” of the U.S. Army, it reappeared in 2001 attributed to “Marine Corps General Reinwald,” and it came back in 2007 in a version featuring Australian general Peter Cosgrove. When this item initially appeared in 1999, the U.S. Army denied that there was a Lieutenant General Reinwald among their ranks and chalked the whole thing up as a hoax. (Which is as logic dictated all along: if an armed forces spokesperson gave voice to a sexist remark likening a female interviewer to a prostitute in a public interview, that officer would soon be called upon to make a very public apology as well as face charges within ranks for conduct unbecoming.)
You've obviously never seen two babies playing. One baby steals a block from the other one, and that one picks up the nearest object and starts bludgeoning its fellow with it. Human beings are well equipped to murder each other. Its instinctual. That's why you have to TEACH children not to hit as their go to reaction.
I enjoyed the story. Enjoy my story. I went to the old Hayward High school in Hayward, Ca. The present school is up on a hill but my school has been torn down. So my point is that as a freshman there, I joined the California Cadet Corp. Believe it or not, the State program mimic the ROTC program but it had actual one actual officer in charge of we students. Major Best commanded us. On the same school grounds we had a rifle range. We of course fired more than rifles there. We were correctly supervised and none of us ever got hurt. We also trained at one of the US Army bases then at San Louis Obispo. We were taken there by train. So what all did we fire. We had the accurate .22 rifles. They were for competition. We fired the .45 cal machine gun we called the Grease gun. It was made of stamped steel.Used by the Army against foxholes. We fired the .30 cal machine gun. We fired the .50 cal machine gun. None of us were bawling nor getting hurt. We had fun.
