Idiots at my school think I'm a murderer.

Davey Wavey said:

Please tell me you made that up. Please?

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well I had the same happen to me the woman quoted the same Sara Palin comment I asked her where do you get your meat from and she told me like everyone else at the store where its made.

Man, when I was in HS (~6-7 years ago in NYS), I almost had someone call "the people in charge of the school" because my friend and I were talking about whether or not we would be able to get .22LR rifles for doing biathlons.

I guess it could have been a "teaching moment", however my friend and I were completely at a loss for words. As in we just looked at each other, and the person who freaked, and had no idea what was going on. It would be like if someone came up to me today and insisted the container of peanuts sitting next to me was going to jump up and kill people.

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Valkman said:

Reminds me of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" where she shoots a Caribou. After that show a woman wrote her that "it's wrong to shoot animals and she should get meat at the store where it's made".

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Please tell me you made that up. Please?

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The Sarah Palin part may be a tall tale, but the "meat is made in the supermarket" snippet comes from a letter to a newspaper. I have a scan of the newspaper clipping, but can't seem to find it ATM (yes, Virginia, there are actual people who think meat is made at the supermarket).

One person thinks I'm going to kill someone just because I was able to list the calibers of the weapons on a video game, go figure.

At my school which is a private school, I've talked about guns alot with students, my teachers, and even the school admin. The school admin was telling me how he got a Chinese AK 47 (MAK 90 I'm guessing) before the AWB went into affect.

My sisters had a fit when I came to visit last year and brought a gun. Thought I was paranoid

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Well, people tend to think that they themselves are normal, so paranoid people tend to think others are too.

I hesitated adding the since I am not entirely joking.

See:
http://www.chickenthistlefarm.com/2010/05/where-was-your-meat-was-made.html

Move ASAP to a gun friendly state

Reminds me of my public speaking class in college. The topic I had approved by the instructor was 'gun-control.' She knew I was a vet, more conservative than the majority of the class, and generally older than the typical college student. I knew going into this that she was more Liberal than I, and I think she automatically assumed I was on the anti's side. So it was rather amusing when my speech turned out to be very pro-gun, making the claim and following it all up with facts that gun control laws do not work. I got an A on the speech.

Also, in English 101, I wrote a short story based on my experiences in Iraq. when it was distributed to the class for public critique, reactions very mixed. One girl who read it never came back to class. When I saw her again through a mutual friend, man she was terrified of me. All because I, in great detail, wrote about my combat experiences.

Time to move.
Or realize that most people in college are idiots.

Bring some old soldier of fortune magazines next time and see what he does...Russ

kmcintosh78 said:

Time to move.
Or realize that most people in college are idiots.

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The OP didn't say he's in college. Algebra is more often taught in junior high or high school. I'm not suggesting people should "freak out" when a kid pulls out a gun brochure, but when I was that age, the kids I was most likely to see looking at gun magazines are also the ones I'd stay the furthest away from.

If he is in college, trust me, this is not confined to California. It's everywhere.

I know I'll be in the minority here, but it's probably best to keep the firearm literature at home. Schools have become a really touchy place when it comes to things like this, and really the focus should be on getting educated.

I'm less concerned about the "uneducated" being worried and more concerned about you being distracted with useless visits to a safety officer.

Sometimes there's just a time and place for everything, and learning those boundaries can be unpleasant. It is just the way that things are today.

Find more folks who have similar interests and meet after class to read and talk about whatever you like back at home.

My rule of thumb has allways been not to talk about anything banned by the school internet filter.

This includes guns, R rated, things of that ilk. Luckly I go to a hick school where about 7 teachers have to not shave until they get a deer. Then they show the deer on the video announcements .

And seriously it'll get better, expecially as you are probably a freshman currently.

Back in the many years ago, when I was in school. First grade saw me in a three room school house, the older kids (12 or so) brought their 22 rifles to school, put them in the gun rack behind the teachers desk and they all had target practice during recess and lunch.

This was in late 50's early 60's time period.

It was not until the mid 70's that this nonsense that you are seeing today, got started.

Today this hate guns stuff is being spoon fed to our kids to the point that they are (many at least) scared to death of even a piece of paper with the picture of a gun on it..

A friend of ours takes his two boys to shoot cowboy action on ther weekends.

The older boy was talking to friends at school about the wonderful time shooting the action sport. He was suspended.

This stuff is just rediculous.

What happened to the America I grew up in ???


Keep the faith young one, and teach the truth everywhere you go.

Snowy

You should take this opportunity to propose that your school start teaching the eddie eagle NRA program. If this is the reaction that you are getting, the school is obviously not doing it job in preparing people for the real world.

Idiots, plural? Only one guy in the OP's story. Forget about him. Move along.

OP,
First thing is, maybe it was not a good idea to take it to school You had some misgivings I would think, for you lied about it right from the start...

If you felt it was ok to have and read (I feel it is) you made an error right from the start Got to wonder why you would tell the story in the first place

Regards

Talk about it everywhere

" I know I'll be in the minority here, but it's probably best to keep the firearm literature at home. Schools have become a really touchy place when it comes to things like this, and really the focus should be on getting educated. "

"My rule of thumb has allways been not to talk about anything banned by the school internet filter."

I believe the above are a part of the problem- we are so overly polite to consider that other folks might be offended by our interests that our interests, hobbies, and very lifestyles have become things we don't talk about except in groups where we know they will be accepted. We need to be more vocal- not obnoxious but work our interests into conversations until they are accepted again as normal, legal activities.

"My rule of thumb has allways been not to talk about anything banned by the school internet filter."

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Firearms are banned by the school's internet filter? If it's a public school, that sounds like a great court case, both 1A and 2A.

Guns are demonized so much that almost anyone without handgun experience are scared of them.

I converted a couple of people by showing them handguns and taken them shooting. They are often surprised on how much fun it is to shoot. However, these people wanted to learn why I love the hobby and was receptive to teaching

I disagree.

The school system has become the educational arm of the weak minded scared to death types that want everone to lay down and become food for the predators.

The children are being trained to fear a lot of stuff, not only guns.

Take your literature to school, speak of Eddy Eagle and other good programs.

Teach your friends of the positive things in the shooting sports.

The only way to get this situation changed is through extreme education.
Cow touing to this nonsense is not goin g to do anything more than further the goal to disarm America and convert the young people of this country into a quivering bunch of scared little mice.

Stand up for what you believe in. Dont go taking a gun to school though for show and tell. Not Even.

The one individual who made the comment about the gun papers has obviously swallowed the line of BS that the schools today are peddling.

Schools here even have shooting teams, ???????? you can't take your rifle to class as we did in years past, but the shooting sports are not out of the question.

If you want to grow up to see the America that many of us older people have been trying hard to leave to you, your going to have to dig in and work to keep it alive.

Keep the faith

Snowy

When I was in high school, my book bag was 1/3 full of school books and 2/3 full of gun books.

Pretty early on, I learned to utterly ignore the opinions of my interests and activities held by people who literally couldn't care less if I lived or died.

docnyt said:

You can use this opportunity to educate your peers about responsible gun ownership and handling.

But still be careful when you're in school. Keep your focus. There are crazy people out there, some of which are on school boards.

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+1 for docnyt. Hit the nail on the head short and to the point ...

When I was in high school, not that long ago, the library had copies of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life on the magazine rack. The teachers were pretty much half and half politically. Several teachers deer hunted, and there were always people that would be out of school on opening day of deer season. This was rural-ish Illinois. A lot of people owned guns, but a good chunk of them were Fudds. We would have disagreements about gun laws, but nobody was terrified of a picture of a gun. Got to college with a bunch of kids from Chicago, wow that was different.
Check your school handbook and see if gun literature could be 'banned'. If it is, fight the rule, but leave the literature at home. If your school has no rule against it, read on and educate.