Hokie_PhD
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Absolutely. Combat is a young man's game.
The first thing I thought of when I read the o.p. was that, if the few really bad students in the school figured out that the old man on the corner had a gun they would simply attack him from behind and take his gun. That scenario is akin to why I understand the reason I'm not allowed to keep a gun in my truck on school property. All my students know I'm a hunter. If one of them wanted a gun, it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to just go break a window in my truck and take the gun.
It saddens me to think how far we’ve come in a bad way. In the early 1980s when I was in high school, I remember pickup trucks in the parking lot with shotguns hanging in the old style rack along the back window. Many of them would be left with the windows open! And if I was betting I wouldn’t be surprised if some had keys left in them.
Now that school has a huge fear of MS13 as one of its real big problems. There’s a homeless camp a mile or so away where people come from that break into cars for loose change and anything else of value that they can steal and turn in to quick cash.