harrassment at school?

Have you been ever harrased at school becuase of your fondness for shooting?

  • Yes

    Votes: 26 27.1%

  • No

    Votes: 39 40.6%

  • Don't go to school

    Votes: 31 32.3%
  • Total voters
    96
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For those of you that are in school right now, have any of you been harrased about your hobby of shooting? I heard belton-deer-hunters tale of bieng searched because drug dogs picked up cordite in his truck, and Darth Ruger taking out the trash, anybody else have this problem? Everywhere I seem to go people look at me and whisper things like "That kid's nuts, he hates the goverment and the FBI and ATF!". No (un-high roadly comment removed by my better judgment)you idiots, I'm a (little l) libertarian. Morons. On the plus side, I'm the only guy I know whose been shooting with his science teacher. Some of the hipocracy I have to put up with is ridiculous. Like my English teacher who protested the VN War on the UT Campus in '68, and then during a debate tells us that free speech is not protected. :fire: :cuss: :fire: :banghead:
There are very few things that irk me as much as being called a nutjob by a limousine liberal millionare's son becuase I like shooting guns. :scrutiny:
 
I was an Anti when I was in high school.

As I went to high school in the heart of the Bay Area, I didn't hear much about shooting till I moved wih my folks to AZ. Thats where I got bit by the shooting bug.
 
My favorite sweater is an NRA sweater that I wear often at school. I had a teacher tell me that I should be banned from school for supporting the KKK. (I am against the KKK, but wouldn't it be against the 1st Amendment to kick me out of school for open expression?) Little does she know that the president responsible for breaking up the KKK later becaome NRA's president! I had one guy tell me that guns kill people and that I should be investigated. I have a 30-06 key chain on my back pack and I have had the campus police contact me due to citizen complaints. Little do they know I used to work for the campus police and they all liked me and many hunted! I go to one teacher though...He asked what me obsession was all about and I said "come shooting you'll see." He went and said "I thought you guys were a bunch or redneck homo haters, (he is gay) I had no idea it was this fun with such a diverse population" I still see him and he is now a gun owner.
 
I've had some stupid looks ("You have guns?" "Yeah, there's a place to keep them down at the police station...") and some downright stupid questions ("So are you, like, in the KKK?" "*the sound of stunned silence* What?"), but other'n that, nothing really negative. I have one of those sweet Nation of Riflemen T-shirts from thoseshirts.com and I've gotten a couple of thumbs-up for it.

~GnSx
 
I was taught by my father never to mention guns in school. Don't need to advertise the fact that we owned many guns. I did have a buddy who was expelled, and thankfully had enough credits to graduate early for having a cased shotgun in his truck. He was legal age (18), and was not on school property. A kid that hated him knew he was going hunting after school and ratted on him. School didn't care he was legal age, and not parked on school property, he was close enough.
 
My 12 year old son gets harassed at school because he loves to hunt deer and wild turkey, loves to go shooting, and likes country music. My 14 year old son got all kinds of crap from other kids at school because for a persuasive speech he was assigned in English class he chose the topic: "Why Wisconsin should have a shall-issue concealed carry law for handguns". They also have to be careful who they show their deer hunting pictures to at school so as not to offend the sensitive.
 
Oh how the times have changed

Central Valley of CA. Small town; 3000 pop. when I was born, 19000 now. That does make a difference.

Elementry school in the 50s. Probably 3/4ths of the class knew how to shoot, even if they didn't do it very often. High School, early to mid 60s, kept a shotgun in my car the first months of school for Dove and Pheasent season as soon as the final bell sounded. My kids went to high school in the 80s. Same acceptance, although not as many liked shooting. Today, forget it in the public arena. Luckily most of my grandkids go to a private Christian School that 1 of my sons teaches at. Different town, pop. 100,000. Many of the parents of the kids are gunnies, or at least respect your right to be one. I was even invited to give a demonstration of being a minute man for one of his US History classes. Just powder and wad of course, no lead. Had to cancel because of cancer surgery before I was able to make a fool out of myself. My 3rd great grandfather was a minute man in the Revolution, but I sure am not. TOO FAT & TOO SLOW.

The Central Valley of CA. is a world apart from the rest of the state. We don't even like to clain the rest of them.
 
I was taught by my father never to mention guns in school.
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jrdean says it best. I may get flamed for this, because some of you may advocate being proud and loud about guns, but is that wise? There are other ways of advancing the cause.

Times have changed. You can really alienate, offend or alarm a classmate or co-worker if you start talking about your fascination with guns or how much you enjoy shooting.

I don't think it is wise to brag about guns or divulge what guns you own at school or work. It is a private matter and people are on a need to know basis. JMO. ;)
 
wasn't much into shooting when in school but I have discussed it with several coworkers and even though mixed responses no one has harrased me about it or considered me nuts..or at least mroe nuts because of it lol. Notice a lot of people in support of licensing can't give you a real answer and jsut kinda shrug or say just cause?

I don't walk around preaching, but I don't hide the fact either....though when the guy getting his thirty minute film done had pics of the der her shot and the anti coworker developing them got all hysterical it was hilarious, I swear you'd think he had takin some pictures of amputated body parts.

Now school, given the idiocy of schools these days I would advise agianst taling about guns.
 
I had a teacher tell me that I should be banned from school for supporting the KKK.
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I had a similar experience, except at work. I wore a NRA shirt one day and one of the company's VPs (a Democrat as if this should suprise you :rolleyes: ) asked me where my white hood was that goes with the shirt. I pretty much avoided any conversation with this arse clown for a few years until he finally was fired for incompetence.
 
Immediately after the Columbine incident, the fact that I had guns at home was made a big issue of. Someone anonymously reported that I had made a threat to someone (totally false) and I was called in, parents and all. I denied everything and they refused to tell me who had made the accusation. I ended up not going back there. I still have a sour taste in my mouth about it. Scores of people my age were treated as guilty until proven innocent merely for having an INTEREST in guns.:fire:
 
Times have changed. You can really alienate, offend or alarm a classmate or co-worker if you start talking about your fascination with guns or how much you enjoy shooting.
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I'm with Lupinus on this one. Who cares what they think or if they "feel" offended/alarmed/alienated as long as we portray gun ownership in a positive way.

Greg
 
I kinda had a bit of a "bad" rep in school..

People that weren't my friends really didn't say much to me.
 
I've actually never had a problem at WVU, but hunting is a way of life for a lot of people here, especially among a decent number of college students.
 
Im the only person in my school(besides hunters) that uses a firearm on a regular basis. When most people find out I dont hunt(because I talk freely about ownership. Im very proud of my firearms thank you) they ask "then why do you have them"? Ive been called hick, red neck, and everything under the sun for it(thats weird, seeing how both my parents are from Maryland, and their Maryland accent on top of being raised in Chattanooga has mad some weird hybrid equalized accent. A few words slip out thats country as hell, and I dont enunciate some words(such as Trenton and Hunting if I talk fast). I dont mind. In government class the other day we actually got to write a journal entry(150 words or more) on the topic of "Guns: Who needs them"? I snuck peeks at other peoples papers and I was frikkin astonished. One kid thought there needed to be gun control because firearms ownership gives an unfair advantage to criminals(I dont even KNOW how he came to think that) and another kid thought just the government should have them. Another didnt care either way.


That just SCREAMED to me that we need more publicized firearms education and facts.
 
Like my English teacher who protested the VN War on the UT Campus in '68, and then during a debate tells us that free speech is not protected.
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Should've told him he could expect to be arrested and imprisoned for talking like that in a government building. :evil:
I did have a buddy who was expelled, and thankfully had enough credits to graduate early for having a cased shotgun in his truck. He was legal age (18), and was not on school property. . . . School didn't care he was legal age, and not parked on school property, . . .
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Must be more to it than that - legal age, NOT parked on school property, when they demanded to search his vehicle, he could've told them to pound sand . . . and made it stick.

I went to high school in Chicago during the early '70s, and guns & hunting were often topics of discussion in the lunchroom or during class breaks . . . I even did a couple of presentations on "ballistics" for some of my classes. No problem then . . . feel sorry for today's kids getting "educated" in a blissninny atmosphere. :(
 
Immediately after the Columbine incident, the fact that I had guns at home was made a big issue of. Someone anonymously reported that I had made a threat to someone (totally false) and I was called in, parents and all. I denied everything and they refused to tell me who had made the accusation. I ended up not going back there. I still have a sour taste in my mouth about it. Scores of people my age were treated as guilty until proven innocent merely for having an INTEREST in guns.


this happend to me the friday before we left for spring break although i knew who did it nad they told meto my face that iu would be punished and after they taloked to the principle he told me he didnt believe them me and him are good hunting budddies. we share pics and ttale tales he know iu wouldnt be that stupid
 
When I was in school so many, many years ago ( the daughter tells me I'm older than dirt) and in Ma. gun ownership was just starting to be an issue.. Fortunately we lived in a small town, knew all the police and even hunted with some.. No problem in town or the school.. It has since changed, that's why I live in Colorado.


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I was teased regularly in school for liking guns and hunting. Most of the gang kids knew a lot about guns, and they didn't harass me. It was mainly the college prep kids who liked to give me a hard time. I would regularly try to talk sense into them and sometimes it worked. Othertimes the situation just stayed ugly. My theory was that getting messed with was a fair price to pay for spreading awareness of shooting those who knew nothing about it.
 
I'm out of school forever now. THANK GOD! Except the school of hard-knocks. When I was in school though, I hadn't yet discovered guns. If people ask me today what I think about them, I tell them the truth.
 
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