Some of you may remember the Lawful Guns in Schools thread I started over at the Firingline.com back in late 1999. 65 responses resulted in discussing the normalcy of kids carrying guns in school with the full acceptance of school and communit (both rural and urban).
Here's another data point for you of a different stripe.
I bought a cheapie DVD player at Walmart and scooped up a couple of cheapie DVDs to test it. One of the DVDs had a collection of old 1950s vintage grainy black & white TV westerns. Bat Masterson, Rifleman, Wagon Train, and the subject of this thread, "Death Valley Days." http://www.deathvalleydays.com/
I spun up the DVD and skipped ahead to find something to catch my eye. It was the beginning of a Death Valley Days episode circa 1953 complete with embedded Boraxo commercial introduced by "The Old Ranger" who was Ronald Reagan's predecessor.
The episode was about a group of bad boys who would misbehave in the one-room school house causing the last seven school masters and marms to quit. Their replacement this time around was a proper lady who didn't appear to have much spine. The townsfolk and the bad kids figured she would last less than a day.
On the first day, the teacher began with a morning prayer as the two bad kids started throwing a ball across the room. The marm asked them nicely to stop, but they didn't. She calmly reached for her bag and pulled out a shiny large-framed DA revolver and shot the ball in mid-air. The kids were mighty impressed.
One of the mothers confronted the teacher as she ate dinner with other town lleaders. The town leaders weren't particularly impressed that the new teacher had a gun in class, but they were as impresed as the kids that she was able to shoot the ball in mid-air. "Why, we've a regular Annie Oakley on our hands," one love-struck fellow said. Smiles all around.
The next day in class, the two bad boys approached her and presented her with several boxes of cartridges. They wanted her to put on a "shootin' match." She said if all of the students paid attention in class and got good marks, that each Friday "we would shoot."
--Back-stabbing plot twists omitted--
The episode was ended when the school marm found one of her students cornered by a rattle snake. Out comes the revolver. The rattler gets plugged in the head.
Thems were the days...
Rick
Here's another data point for you of a different stripe.
I bought a cheapie DVD player at Walmart and scooped up a couple of cheapie DVDs to test it. One of the DVDs had a collection of old 1950s vintage grainy black & white TV westerns. Bat Masterson, Rifleman, Wagon Train, and the subject of this thread, "Death Valley Days." http://www.deathvalleydays.com/
I spun up the DVD and skipped ahead to find something to catch my eye. It was the beginning of a Death Valley Days episode circa 1953 complete with embedded Boraxo commercial introduced by "The Old Ranger" who was Ronald Reagan's predecessor.
The episode was about a group of bad boys who would misbehave in the one-room school house causing the last seven school masters and marms to quit. Their replacement this time around was a proper lady who didn't appear to have much spine. The townsfolk and the bad kids figured she would last less than a day.
On the first day, the teacher began with a morning prayer as the two bad kids started throwing a ball across the room. The marm asked them nicely to stop, but they didn't. She calmly reached for her bag and pulled out a shiny large-framed DA revolver and shot the ball in mid-air. The kids were mighty impressed.
One of the mothers confronted the teacher as she ate dinner with other town lleaders. The town leaders weren't particularly impressed that the new teacher had a gun in class, but they were as impresed as the kids that she was able to shoot the ball in mid-air. "Why, we've a regular Annie Oakley on our hands," one love-struck fellow said. Smiles all around.
The next day in class, the two bad boys approached her and presented her with several boxes of cartridges. They wanted her to put on a "shootin' match." She said if all of the students paid attention in class and got good marks, that each Friday "we would shoot."
--Back-stabbing plot twists omitted--
The episode was ended when the school marm found one of her students cornered by a rattle snake. Out comes the revolver. The rattler gets plugged in the head.
Thems were the days...
Rick