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In reply to the discussion: I am old enough to remember when kids were allowed to actually bring guns to school [View all]TampaAnimusVortex
(785 posts)82. Pretty common in rural Georgia of course.
Just about every teen boy had a rifle. That was just assumed.
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I am old enough to remember when kids were allowed to actually bring guns to school [View all]
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