SmeeAgain
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Obviously I'm older than dirt but when I was a kid, going to school, guns were everyday items.
It was common for kids to get on the bus in the morning with their rifle / shotgun to either be used at "the school gun club" or to get off the bus at a friend's house after school to go hunting / target shooting.
Of course this was long before guns were considered evil, with minds of their own... randomly sneaking out & causing trouble all by themselves.
Most of us kids grew up on ranches. As such most boys had a knife of some sort on their belt. They were necessary tools... not weapons!
Oh we had typical kid fights, but NEVER did I hear of anyone even remotely threaten another with a gun or knife. EVER!
A huge factor in that... every adult had the same authority as our parents... often worse! If we screwed up, we got our backsides beat on the spot! Then long before we made it home, our parents knew all about it and we got beat again! It was always worse at home!
Nobody screwed up much!
This was both elementary and high school. If I could find my old yearbooks, there are several "gun pics" besides the "gun club photos".
Then something changed, when I wasn't paying attention. Guns suddenly became horrifying!
Arbitrarily biting a PopTart into a crude shape of a pistol became a criminal offense!
What happened to toy guns? Seriously... when was the last time any of us saw a cap gun in a toy store? Anybody?
It was common for kids to get on the bus in the morning with their rifle / shotgun to either be used at "the school gun club" or to get off the bus at a friend's house after school to go hunting / target shooting.
Of course this was long before guns were considered evil, with minds of their own... randomly sneaking out & causing trouble all by themselves.
Most of us kids grew up on ranches. As such most boys had a knife of some sort on their belt. They were necessary tools... not weapons!
Oh we had typical kid fights, but NEVER did I hear of anyone even remotely threaten another with a gun or knife. EVER!
A huge factor in that... every adult had the same authority as our parents... often worse! If we screwed up, we got our backsides beat on the spot! Then long before we made it home, our parents knew all about it and we got beat again! It was always worse at home!
Nobody screwed up much!
This was both elementary and high school. If I could find my old yearbooks, there are several "gun pics" besides the "gun club photos".
Then something changed, when I wasn't paying attention. Guns suddenly became horrifying!
Arbitrarily biting a PopTart into a crude shape of a pistol became a criminal offense!
What happened to toy guns? Seriously... when was the last time any of us saw a cap gun in a toy store? Anybody?