Back before the NRA put side arms on the hips of every self styled Kyle Rittenhouse

This was a cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1958 when I was about the same age as the runaway in Norman Rockwell’s illustration. It used to be the only side arms were those carried by officers of the law and white people weren’t paranoid about being unarmed.

The NRA fixed that horrible state of affairs big time.

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