"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered, yes - remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education - make them hunters."

Henry David Thoreau, 1854


“A citizen who shirks his duty to contribute to the security of his community is little better than the criminal who threatens it.” - Robert Boatman


Sunday, June 8, 2008

Gunning for empowerment (From the Aspen Times)


by: Charles Agar (Aspen Times)

There are some ladies in the Roaring Fork Valley that you just don’t want to mess with.

Especially women at “Girls with their Guns,” a personal safety course at the Basalt Shooting Range led by Mathew Bayley, a professional firearms instructor from Avon.
A 17-year military veteran
and longtime weapons instructor,
Mathew Bayley demonstrates to
his class how to use a gun
at close range.
(Jordan Curet/Aspen Times Weekly)

“It’s like a Tupperware party where you shoot the Tupperware,” Bayley says.

Full Article here

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