Firearms in school, did you ever......?

braggscowboy · #21 01/14/12, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by oakridgewi

I have to agree things have certainly deteriated. When I was in HS, the school had a trap league. Deer season was an excused absence. (though I was just as often picking corn instead) The farm boys all carried a pocket knife out of habit. Guns in the gun rack of your truck in the school lot.

Like another said, fist-fights occured, but NEVER, EVER was anyone injured or threatened with a knife or gun.

Boy, I miss those days.

sy

Bad to say, but you will never see those days again I am afraid. It will be hard to convince the younger ones that we could do this and there was nothing wrong with it. Kind of like what is going on in the middle east, let the leaders fight it out and get it over with. Ego's hurt, no blood or hurt from anyone else.

woodsrunner · #22 01/18/12, 12:14 AM

I graduated in 1981. Went to school here in western NY. My friends and I took firearms to school on a regular basis. We always kept them in my buddies Suburban. A few of my friends even had pistol permits at 16. Back then it was possible to get a pistol permit to carry your fathers gun at 16. I had a job feeding horses before and after school. Carried a big Buck knife on my hip all day. Nobody said anything about that either. Alot of us worked on farms guns and knives were a part of everyday life and no big deal.

We did alot of things back then that wouldn't fly in todays culture. My friend that had the suburban and I ran a trapline together. We would drive the line in "The Burban" and skin pelts in the student parking lot before school and on our lunch hour. I can still remember the morning we caught a skunk and decided to save the essence as well as the pelt. Didn't get sprayed per say, but, we did have a decidedly different cologne that day. Sent us home shortly after first period. If I recall correctly we spent the rest of the day fishing. We couldn't smell each other so it really didn't bother us.

Pulled another friends camper behind that suburban too. Fridays it would sit in the parking lot all day guns and fishing poles locked inside. As soon as school let out we were off for adventure. Just seems like the kids today aren't interested in the kind of adventure my friends and I loved so well.

ChristieAcres · #23 01/18/12, 01:38 AM

I graduated in Casper WY, in 1982, and remember the guys would have guns in their vehicles, never heard of any students bringing them inside the school, and there were no problems. I am also one who believes almost "anything" can be used as a weapon, but is simply an inanimate object until then (some more lethal than others, of course). In our family, we were raised in an environment where guns were loaded, accessible, and we were taught to the proper use and respect of of them. There were 6 children, including myself, and zero accidents.

Should add here, that I just remembered something... When I moved out, I was 16 years old. My boyfriend took me target practicing and since I was a better shot, he gave me his gun, and replaced it with another one. At this time, violence towards women was higher here, as there was a 7:1 ratio (men vs women). This was one of the reasons, I was informed, just believed what I was told. Due to the violence, I carried my loaded semi-auto 25mm in my purse (always on safety). I was still in school, so I brought my purse with me to every class. Funny, I hadn't remembered that. Oh, no one knew, and no problems, of course. I walked to school and also to work everyday, so that was the other reason for it (got off work after dark).

**Cabin Fever** · #24 01/18/12, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by lorichristie

I....Due to the violence, I carried my loaded semi-auto 25mm in my purse (always on safety)....

That's biggest handgun round I ever heard of!

Cornhusker · #25 01/18/12, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

That's biggest handgun round I ever heard of!

me too

A .25acp is better than a sharp stick or a harsh word though

Cornhusker · #26 01/18/12, 08:49 AM

I also grew up when guns were common tools and nobody freaked out if you had a rifle in the window.
The more they try to control guns the more violence seems to grow.
Of course, schools have gone downhill for the last 30 years, and society has suffered because of it.
Kids are "sheltered" and "protected" instead of being taught respect and responsibility.
Parents use the schools as babysitters, and the schools have the responsibility but not the authority to turn kids into productive adults.
This whole country is going south at an alarming rate.

ChristieAcres · #27 01/18/12, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Cornhusker

me too

A .25acp is better than a sharp stick or a harsh word though

Exactly, but knew I'd get teased by posting it

I didn't carry a large purse and it fit perfectly without detection.

**Cabin Fever** · #28 01/18/12, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by lorichristie

Exactly, but knew I'd get teased by posting it

I didn't carry a large purse and it fit perfectly without detection.

Wait a minute. I'd never tease anyone who carries a 25 caliber pistol.

I would tease someone who claimed they had a 25mm pistol (25mm = 100 caliber!)

ChristieAcres · #29 01/18/12, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

Wait a minute. I'd never tease anyone who carries a 25 caliber pistol.

I would tease someone who claimed they had a 25mm pistol (25mm = 100 caliber!)

Oops, LOL

woodsrunner · #30 01/19/12, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by lorichristie

Exactly, but knew I'd get teased by posting it

I didn't carry a large purse and it fit perfectly without detection.

when you need a gun a .25 on you is worth a thousand .45's left home because they were too big.

Bearfootfarm · #31 01/19/12, 09:00 PM

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As we used to teach in the spook business, carry a 25 if it makes you feel good, but do not ever load it.

If you load it you may shoot it.

If you shoot it you may hit somebody, and if you hit somebody ...

and he finds out about it...

he may be very angry with you.

Jeff Cooper

http://blog.joehuffman.org/2006/10/0...The25Auto.aspx

ChristieAcres · #32 01/19/12, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by woodsrunner

when you need a gun a .25 on you is worth a thousand .45's left home because they were too big.

You are right. Case in point? One evening, I was on a WY two-lane Hwy, driving my car. Approaching, other direction, a pickup truck. As "he" passed, I get bad vibe, checked my rear-view, only to see that pickup make a u-turn... I saw him quickly gain on me, put my little Bauer 25 on my lap, and sped up. He turned out, getting alongside me, and tried to run me off the road. I rolled down my window, held out my gun, and he saw it. I didn't have to fire it, but it was a good enough deterrent. The guy sped off.

ChristieAcres · #33 01/19/12, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

Jeff Cooper

http://blog.joehuffman.org/2006/10/0...The25Auto.aspx

They can say whatever they want. This was only my first gun, but I didn't just load it, but I had a bullet in the chamber. The safety worked! I carried that gun for 3 years, with zero accidents. A gun that isn't loaded, is worthless.