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Showing Original Post only (View all)I am old enough to remember when kids were allowed to actually bring guns to school [View all]
and I am only 40 something. deer rifles in the back windows of pick ups in the high school parking lot were not uncommon in rural East Texas in the 1970s and even 80s. Of course that is also back when seat belts weren't required and it was legal to drive down the road drinking a beer if you were at least 18.
I wouldn't support returning to such policies, I'm just making a my-how-times-have changed and I guess I'm getting old observation.
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arely staircase
Apr 2013
OP
In the city of Phoenix it was the same way. Rifles in the back window. All the boys brough knives.
MellowYellow
Apr 2013
#7
yeah and everyone could sit around later and watch the video of their gun being stolen
arely staircase
Apr 2013
#13
Probably yes. But back then they weren't stolen, and that was befor cameras were
MellowYellow
Apr 2013
#45
That is a question I have asked many times over that no one really answers
The Straight Story
Apr 2013
#11
You must not have lived in the south, KKK and yahoos weren't nice people -- and guns were common.
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#27
For some reason no one wants to debate this issue. Maybe they know they won't like what they see
MellowYellow
Apr 2013
#55
Kids used to get paddled for bad behavior back then as well but then came the law suits
Bandit
Apr 2013
#33
It was pretty common to see gun racks in pick-ups parked on campus at TAMU in the 80's
HereSince1628
Apr 2013
#19
I'm a good bit older than that, and I remember when the bigots had guns in their cars.
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#20
And there was also recess, where kids could pick their own teams, and play dodge ball, and
bike man
Apr 2013
#21
No, it wasn't a rural vs. urban thing. I went to school in Phoenix and Austin. I'm
MellowYellow
Apr 2013
#54
Which again begs the question WHY? What changed? Why weren't kids with guns and often times
MellowYellow
Apr 2013
#58
I grew up in Dallas and I never saw kids bringing guns into school. If I had, my mother
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#32
Suburban Dallas in the late 50s early 60s was not rural. I am talking about Highland Park
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#48
I remember when kids were allowed to bring their necessary medicine to school
BlueStreak
Apr 2013
#36
I lived in a So Cal beach town in High School (mid '60's). I remember all the surf boards lined up..
Tikki
Apr 2013
#53
My second grade teacher brought the musket carried by her great-grandfather in the Civil War...
Marengo
Apr 2013
#64
i don't remember a collective hard-on for para-military weapons back then either
arely staircase
Apr 2013
#74