How times have changed for guns

[Gunsmithing]

The high school (Clovis High)I came from had a gun cub. Both of my brothers was in the gun club the shooting range was in the gymnasium at high school till 1969. Today even a plastic gun will get kicked out of school. Do not know how many other high school had this but nothing ever happen bad BUT other sports ever few years we lost one . Now how bad are guns to other sports.

Dave

[Remus]

Washington State has a law that if you bring ANY gun and/or toy gun you will be expelled (permanently) from all state schools. To give you an idea how this is being enforced, a child on a playground was expelled for bringing his GI Joe action figure with its plastic rifle. Make no mistake, there was no way that this piece of plastic could conceivably be considered as a dangerous weapon. Nevertheless he was expelled.

Ten years prior to that I had my pocket knife drop out of my jacket pocket directly in front of my elementary school teachers feet. I had forgotten about it on a camping trip. Either she didn't see it and/or she just realized it was no big deal.

[Rhythm of Life]

My old middle school used to frequently have hunters walking through the school yard on the way out to hunt.

Common practice and wasn't frowned upon.

[joepamjohn]

My old middle school used to frequently have hunters walking through the school yard on the way out to hunt.

Common practice and wasn't frowned upon.

Well what changed this and made it "frowned upon" was when the "hunters" (so to speak) started using the students as their targets when they walked thru the school yard.

[westcoast362]

When I attended Pasadena High School there was a rifle range under the auditorium that was used by the ROTC. I wonder what is down there now.

[Mr.1904]

Joepamjohn - what?

[Merc1138]

Well what changed this and made it "frowned upon" was when the "hunters" (so to speak) started using the students as their targets when they walked thru the school yard.

Huh?

Are you making some silly columbine reference and forgetting that school shootings happened before columbine? You sound like an anti.

[repubconserv]

Well what changed this and made it "frowned upon" was when the "hunters" (so to speak) started using the students as their targets when they walked thru the school yard.

Joepamjohn - what?

I second this sentiment. Whachoo talkin bout willis er..... joe

[briguy73]

Back on track...

I remember even in the late 80's, going to high school with my gun rack in the back window with a rifle in it and leaving it there while I was in class... and I was the minority - most others had two rifles in their racks!!!

Come to think of it...when was the last time you saw a truck driving around town with a gun rack in the back window with actual guns in it? I've seen a few fishing poles recently, but no guns! This used to be such a common thing everywhere you went!

What happened????

[Wicked Pete]

March 30, 1981 2:27 p.m. President Reagan and three others (Brady) were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. The motivation behind the attack: in the late 1970s, he saw the film "Taxi Driver" at least 15 times.

November 30, 1993 - 12.6 years later; The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act - was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. This "Act" was intended to stop crime! As you can see, we now live in a wonderful crime free America. Yipee!

[77bawls]

Come to think of it...when was the last time you saw a truck driving around town with a gun rack in the back window with actual guns in it? I've seen a few fishing poles recently, but no guns! This used to be such a common thing everywhere you went!

What happened????

I may have to get a gun rack for my truck.

[23 Blast]

WRT schools and the silliness regarding even toy guns (which are all now molded in day-glo orange or green so as never to be confused with a real firearm) - I can tell you that it isn't just weapons (or their toy plastic facsimiles). It's everything from clothing, to footwear, to what sorts of logos they can have on their backpacks and lunchboxes, even to what sorts of writing instruments they bring. Are you kidding me? My son had a mechanical pencil confiscated from him because "it's not safe." said his teacher. I nearly had an apoplexy when I challenged that a regular wooden pencil, sharpened to a point, wasn't exactly "safe" either. Actually, she was kind of cool, as she realized the stupidity of the rule, and gave back the pencil with an admonition to bring only those wooden ones from now on.

Another thing is my son's eyeglasses. He wears prescription eyeglasses which are set in sports glasses frames (as he likes to play sports and has managed to break every "normal" pair we've bought him). They are also transition lenses, meaning that they darken in sunlight. My son wears these glasses not only to see, but to protect his eyes while playing sports and from the sun, as he has had eye surgery in the past.

Of course, the school has an inane no-sunglasses policy and it took me storming down to the school in a fit to explain to those f*cking morons that they were prescription glasses, not some damn fashion accessory.

Sorry, just venting.

[Bobby Ricigliano]

I took a public safety class in high school (late 80's) that was taught by a very cool retired LEO. One day he brought a bunch of handguns in to class and passed them around the room for show and tell.

I'll bet that wouldn't happen nowadays.

[Green Ice Dragon]

I took a public safety class in high school (late 80's) that was taught by a very cool retired LEO. One day he brought a bunch of handguns in to class and passed them around the room for show and tell.

I'll bet that wouldn't happen nowadays.

Well, I think after that DEA agent that shot himself in the foot reinforced that.

[cnj]

Well what changed this and made it "frowned upon" was when the "hunters" (so to speak) started using the students as their targets when they walked thru the school yard.

Huh????