Then and Now

[MaddSkillz]

My high school had a no "firearms" policy back in the day. The term gun needs to be redefined in these zero tolerance policies to exclude toys.

My tin hat theory is that schools are attempting to 'educate' firearms out of society.

In other words, government.

 

[jeffsoward]

I remember in fifth grade, I took a throwing star to school. it wasn't one of the cheap ones either; it was the stainless one with sharpened edges.
Mr. Alexander just took it away from me and told me that my mom could come pick it up. She didn't.
i always had a pocket knife in school. i even used it a few times in shop class WHILE working with the teacher.

 

[ewheeley]

When I was a high school senior, two years ago, my biology teacher (that I was good friends with, still am) asked to borrow my knife. He just assumed that I had one. He guessed right, used it, gave it back, no worries.

 

[Dale00]

It's a good question and one worth spending some time trying to figure out, Certainly there has been a major shift in American culture. I have to blame the increase in the number of irresponsible parents. Broken homes and boys being raised without fathers has led to widespread irresponsible behavior by kids. The schools can do little without solid parents to back them up so they have instead outlawed everything associated with guns and other weapons.

There has also been a decline in the number of hunters. Without a parent who hunts or is familiar with safe gun handling, how can a child learn safe gun handling? Hats off to the Boy Scouts and 4-H Shooting Sports for helping to promote safe gun handling skills among kids.

 

[GUN DOG]

Always had a knife, had to cut the bundles open for my news paper route back in junior high

 

[Glock 'em down]

My dad told me a story once about when he was a boy, he had saved up all summer and all winter. When spring arrived, he finally had enough money to walk down to the local shop and buy a Winchester rifle he had his eye on.

Anyway, he bought the rifle, was walking back home when a deputy sheriff pulled up next to him and said, "whatcha got there, son?" Dad proudly presented the rifle to the lawman, action open as he was taught, with a grin on his face that Ajax couldn't have took off.

He said the old flatfoot took the rifle, holding it like a newborn baby, let out a whistle and said, "boy howdy! Now ain't that a jim-dandy!" and with a smile, handed the rifle back to dad and headed on down the road. He told him something like "be sure and kill a bigun, now!" as he was waving and driving away.

Take that same scenario today and the kid would probably be locked up and his parents called.

 

[WTJ]

The cities went to hell years ago. Now the country is following. They should move DC to an empty field in Kansas.

And, yes, all this crap comes from the .gov Department of Re-education.

 

[AKguy1985]

When i was in 1st grade a kid in 2nd brought a 1911 of some sort he found on his land to school for show and tell, it was old and rusted and non functional of course. No one freaked out either

 

[cjjtulsa]

The cities went to hell years ago. Now the country is following. They should move DC to an empty field in Kansas.

And, yes, all this crap comes from the .gov Department of Re-education.

Don't go polluting God's Country with that dump.....put it somewhere in the desert (I want that empty field for my retirement bunker). They seem to love illegals in DC, so the closer to the border, the better.

 

[foghorn918]

In 1968 when I was in 5th grade I took my Mossberg Bolt Action (minus bolt) .410 shotgun to school as a visual aid when I gave my oral speech on quail hunting. That was at an OKC elementary school.