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Our country sure has changed ... consider Annie Oakley

Maybe you've heard of Annie Oakley ... maybe you know more about her than I do here.

I post this because it honors a forgotten but once famous American woman with a gun. Also it tells us about how our American culture has changed, but not just regarding women and/or guns.

My opininion:
We're deeply socialized now with our sporting activities. We've been conditioned away from sports like shooting and boxing and rodeo and even log rolling and tree cutting. We've been sold on baseball and basketball and football, all for the team, one for all. Teams are collectives of a sort.

I've got no problem with teams but:
Why did we adopt this shift just 4 generations ago so that independent individuals, especially with guns, a LONE gun, is perhaps finally considered anti-social? This as our society reverses what it was that made it great.

Let's remember the pre-1930's America. Guns were surely good then. And Annie Oakley was very good. I suppose she was one of the most early symbols that women COULD equal or better a man, atleast with a gun.

Please post anything you wish, I'm just sharing my thoughts tonight. :bear_thumb:
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Edison Kinetoscope: Annie Oakley (1894)
Like many of the earliest Edison movies, this one showed
a popular entertainment figure performing one of her
specialties. It's an interesting attempt, and it's nice to
have something preserved on film of Annie Oakley, one of the legends of her day.
But the footage that resulted is clearly limited by the constraints of the studio.

This is one of the first movies ever made and it's Annie Oakley

They say this is how Annie Oakley began

Annies beginnings with the Ace of Spades

Re-enactment from "ANNIE OAKLEY"
PBS "American Experience", 2006. Glass balls filled with
colored powder were the target of choice for
sharpshooters of the period.

She drew a crowd almost like the Super Bowl in our America

Annie Oakley, a European shooting star

America was known for it's women and sharpshooters

Annie Oakley sues Hearst for Libel
Re-enactment from "ANNIE OAKLEY", (60 min., PBS "American Experience", 2006).
In the early 1900s, Annie Oakley sued 55 Hearst
newspapers for libel, winning 54 of the cases.

Annie got screwed by William Randolf Hearst

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Re: Our country sure has changed ... consider Annie Oakley

Koy, GIMco, number one thread organizer!!!!! Thank you for the intro to all the u-tubes....I wish other members would do likewise....:applause_

Interesting observation, however, it would be to difficult to sell tickets to a shooting contest....You still have a choice with golf and auto racing, oh yes, through in the horse too....

And yes, you can still fine bowling lanes, available for your pleasure..

Re: Our country sure has changed ... consider Annie Oakley

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Ed McGivern
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McGivern

Bob Munden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Munden_(shooter)
Munden Speaks about the guinees Book of World Records which, incidentally, no longre records or displays recaords involving non-olympic firearm events.

Quote:

"In 1981, the year most shooting records disappeared from the Guinness Book, I called David Boehm of the Sterling Publishing Company and asked why. He told me that there is a committee that approves books to be used in school libraries across the nation. The committee informed Mr. Boehm that it would only approve the Guinness Book for continued use as a reference book in school libraries if gun records were removed. To protect the Guinness Book from a black list, that's what the publishing company felt it had to do. If you look at recent editions of the Guinness Book of World Records, you will notice that most gun records by shooters using real firearms (not gimmicked with things like light-weight aluminum barrels,) are no longer listed, including those set by the famous Annie Oakley, Ed McGivern, Tom Frye and myself. It is a shame that a small group of people on that education committee, people who probably grew up in cities away from the shooting sports millions of Americans and citizens of many other nations appreciate and enjoy, can have the power to effectively erase history."

Re: Our country sure has changed ... consider Annie Oakley

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Originally Posted by SLV>GLD (Post 1628342)

I had no idea...
I can only imagine it's the same people that are taking God out of schools and putting "gay appreciation day" in it's place.
To hell with the Guiness book of records!