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

[Sourdough]

Did you ever take firearms to school......??? I sometimes ponder how the world has changed. Being born in the 40's and raised in the 50's in rural PA. things were far different than today. Back then there was a special bus for farm boys, it came by later so farm boys could finish milking. And it departed early from school so farm boys could get home for the afternoon/evening milking.

We took our firearms to school, and had the bus driver drop us off on the otherside of the mountain, so we could hunt deer on the way home. In Jr. High school you just put your firearm in the cloak room. In High School we had our own lockers, for our books and firearms. It did not matter if deer season was open, as you could shoot deer on your own farm, any time of the year.

[jake abraham]

while I was in school we usaully had guns in our cars& nobody cared

[nell67]

It was nothing to see fifty or so trucks with rifles and shotguns in them when I went to school,or guys carrying a side knife on his belt of good quality and size.

[randyt]

I remember those days too. I remember taking firearms in for show and tell.

what I really want to know WHAT HAPPENED?

[crashdive123]

I remember those days too. I remember taking firearms in for show and tell.

what I really want to know WHAT HAPPENED?

We all fell asleep at the wheel and let "them" have one small victory after another.

[SemperFi]

I grew up in Washington D.C. , we opened carry , also carried knives , you had to , I wasnt getting bum rushed by no one!

[tank]

I always carried a pocket full of .22 lr shells in my pants pocket as well as a pocket knife, nobody would be caught dead without a pocket. and sometimes with a belt fixed knife.I even carried a rifle to school for show and tell and tell,cold war when we had duck and cover drills some of the guys would bring rifles and shotguns to school for protection and security.
Or at least a rifle or shotgun in the back window of the truck.

[Skinner]

When I Was In High School I Was In JROTC and I Was On The Drill Team and On The School JROTC Shooting Team . I Always Wore My Sidearm (Standerd .45)
nd Carred a M1 That Was Fully Operational . When We Drilled We Used Lead Filled Rifles But Being On the Drill and Shooting Team I Had Real Rifles and Sidearms .
Also Brought My AR-15 to School Since We Had a Shooting range to Shoot At for the Team .
Now If you Just Mutter anything About a Firearm In Schools They Treat you Like a Criminal.

[aflineman]

Principal here just asks that rifles be kept out of sight in the kids' trucks. We used to keep them either in the truck, or in the Principal's office. I think he just wanted them in his office so he could talk "hunting" when we dropped them off or picked them up.

[BENESSE]

Can't even imagine how kids carrying firearms to school would improve things. If I yearned for anything it would be for bringing back discipline in the classroom, respect for the teachers and learning something useful.

[2dumb2kwit]

In high school, the area that I lived in was on the line, between country and city, kinda. It was a growing area, getting more and more "cityfied". (sp) One morning in home room, the teacher told us that technically, guns were not allowed on school property. He then told us, that he knew a lot of us hunted before and/or after school, so he said "Just put your guns behind the seat of your trucks, so the people who are worried about them, can't see them".

Looking back, that was a real sign of things to come.

[2dumb2kwit]

Can't even imagine how kids carrying firearms to school would improve things. If I yearned for anything it would be for bringing back discipline in the classroom, respect for the teachers and learning something useful.

The thing that I think you are missing, is that back then, the guns were not an issue, because of our respect and discipline.

[2dumb2kwit]

Kinda like...back when you could take a nail-file on an airplane. LOL

[BENESSE]

I totally get that 2D.

[BENESSE]

Let's face it, the world has changed, and there ain't no going back.

[randyt]

remember too back then if ya had it coming there was the "paddle" ya know the one with holes in it to decrease wind resistance. Or getting to stand in the corner or if ya got caught chewing gun ya had to stick it on your nose. Or a bar of soap in the mouth for foul language. I don't know to much about that stuff cuz it happened to the other kids LOL.

[hunter63]

Who had what in their cars and trucks was not an issue in the late 50's and 60's.......and everyone had a knife of some sort.

It is sad, but seems that the "Rights' of students, intended to be rights, has turned in to a complete disregard of common sense.
To protect everyone, from everything, with no selfcontrol and responsibility.... has resulted the the loss of freedoms to all.

One local school was shut down because of a live .22 round found in a hallway.

[Rick]

Always. Always had one in the car up through the '60 and into the 70's. I was a freshman in college in '73 and some goober brought in a shotgun for show and tell. He had removed the pellets from the shell and was dumb enough to pull the trigger in class. On the opposite wall was 7 or 8 of those pull down maps with three or four or so pulled down. The wad, which he neglected to remove, went through the maps. Fortunately, no one was injured other than the maps and some ringing ears. But that was the last time the college allowed guns on campus.

They got pretty upset when someone threw a chunk of potassium or sodium (whatever it was) in the lake, too.

[TresMon]

My best buddy took my 1911 .45 in high school for a "oration project" for english class. He talked about the history of the 45 guv'ment model.

That was Circa 1993! I was a junior and he was a senior. The principle of our school was an OLD SCHOOL Marine and a carry over form the previous era. With even all the gun taboos in the nineties, that principle was a really cool hold-out.

i have been gun smith'n since I was little. I struck a deal with the old Marine. We agreed that I was to show up to school REALLY early the day of my best friends speech. I was to take the firing pin out of the pistol right before his eyes, just me and him locked away in his office. He put the pin & the pistol in his desk drawer. My buddy came by his office prior to english and picked up the weapon. At the end of the day, when practically everyone was gone he gave me back my firing pin. Not the stuff of the 50's, but pretty cool for the nineties thinks me.

[BENESSE]

Y'all recall a time and place I'm not familiar with.
I did not grow up in NYC, did not immigrate from Neptune and yet, NO one I knew carried in or out of school, or even talked about firearms. All I'm saying is, your reality isn't universal.