Schools..guns..gun shaped pastries, pointy finger gun and gun shaped clouds

[FeeNicks]

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[Vetteman]

They still do, regionals are in 3 weeks.

 

[FeeNicks]

 

[nerfhearder]

They haven't gone away.

Grow up.

 

[handysr]

They haven't gone away.

Grow up.

They haven't gone away, but they have massively changed. I know some people on their high school shooting team, and it's barely there. The students/parents have to pay a crap-ton of money to be involved, they aren't allowed to mention the team in the yearbook (no pictures either, because scary), and they rarely get a mention anywhere in school. Everyone seems to think that even though the gun is only a pellet gun, that it can still shoot up the cafeteria all by itself, and everyone should be afraid of the hunk of metal and plastic.

My parents told me that nobody cared when a group of kids got on the city bus to go to school, and every one of them had a real rifle over their shoulder. It was only a .22, but it's still deadly. Kids left their guns in the back seat or trunk of their cars in the school parking lot, and nobody cared.

It's the 0.01% of kids that helped screw up this ability, but mostly it was the whiney-assed liberals that hate people being allowed to have guns, much less carry them around. Thanks for nothing, assholes.

 

[nerfhearder]

They haven't gone away, but they have massively changed. I know some people on their high school shooting team, and it's barely there. The students/parents have to pay a crap-ton of money to be involved, they aren't allowed to mention the team in the yearbook (no pictures either, because scary), and they rarely get a mention anywhere in school. Everyone seems to think that even though the gun is only a pellet gun, that it can still shoot up the cafeteria all by itself, and everyone should be afraid of the hunk of metal and plastic.

My parents told me that nobody cared when a group of kids got on the city bus to go to school, and every one of them had a real rifle over their shoulder. It was only a .22, but it's still deadly. Kids left their guns in the back seat or trunk of their cars in the school parking lot, and nobody cared.

It's the 0.01% of kids that helped screw up this ability, but mostly it was the whiney-assed liberals that hate people being allowed to have guns, much less carry them around. Thanks for nothing, assholes.

Maybe it's that way in the school near you but there are plenty of rifle clubs in high schools that shoot .22's and others may be a pellet gun but they aren't Daisy's. Some schools still have ranges, others go to a range. Keeping the gun locked up is just common sense. Just because 60 years ago they didn't care if you left it in the back seat doesn't mean it's how it should be done.

 

[renard_ruse]

I vaguely remember JROTC kids bringing guns in the 1980s, though I could be mistaken. I know they practiced marksmanship, I'm assuming off campus somewhere.

 

[phrodeau]

If your gun disappears from the back of your pickup, no big deal. Just buy another one, so you can properly defend yourself and your loved ones from all those armed criminals.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I live near the local high school, and most of the pick-em-up trucks in the lot have guns hanging in the rear window.

Silly kids with just one or two guns. I have four guns in my truck. I may come across a squirrel, a turkey, a rabbit or a deer on my travels. Best to be prepared.