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Gun Accidents in the Early Days
In those early days, and for a long time after, there were lots of accidents, and these were caused not so much by carelessness in the use of a gun, for every boy was taught the ethics of shooting—which means the right way to handle a gun with regard to the safety of himself and others—but because the art of making guns was new, and every now and then one exploded and did other things that a good gun should not do.
Still no one ever thought of such a thing as keeping a boy from learning to shoot, for it was the lesser of two evils—that is, the boy's folks would rather take a chance on a good gun going bad than on a bad Indian getting good; and hence he very quickly learned how to take aim and fire at any and every thing which he could skin and eat or which, turnabout, might eat him skin and all.
Collins, A. Frederick. Shooting, for Boys,. New York: Moffat, Yard and, 1917. Print.
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