"Have you ever 'carried' in high school" ???

[Okiecruffler]

Had a bolt action 20ga. behind the seat of my Ranchero (now there's a chick magnet) all thru highschool. I had a history teacher who used to come get me out of class to ask if he could borrow it. I was what my councilor called a "hot head" and I don't think a week went by without me getting into some kind of shoving match with someone. Strangely enough I never even thought of shooting someone. My father would not have approved. I think parents were different then.

 

[Kevlarman]

I was in 4th grade and brought in a live 9mm cartridge for show and tell (yeah yeah, I know ). Didn't get in trouble, but the teacher told me not to bring in anymore live ammo without first asking.

In my Junior year in highschool I had my SAK at the food drive. I was cutting up onions. Teacher saw me and told me to give it to her. Didn't get in trouble that time, but never got my knife back either.

Again Junior year. I was on an ASB trip to the local homeless shelter to help make food and pass it out, etc. Had my Benchmade with my with just the pocket clip exposed in my front pocket. Janitor who happened to come along on that trip saw it and brought me around the corner to pat me down. He confiscated my Benchmade and my Leatherman Micra. Got 5-days suspension for that, but was not recommended for an explusion hearing because of my outstanding behavior in school.

Times have changed.

 

[TarpleyG]

David,

All that and you didn't even kill anyone? Wow, what control.

GT

 

[garrettwc]

Almost everybody had a Buck folder on their belt.

You could tell the start of deer season by the number of muddy trucks with loaded gun racks in the rear window.

There used to be a popular "capture the flag" kind of game called Gotcha that we all played. There was even a movie about it. We all had little rubber dart pistols that we carried around. At the beginning of the year we all drew names. The idea was to do a "hit" on the person whose name you drew. You then took over their target list. It was moderated and ran the whole school year. The winner was the guy who survived.

If you tried that now the SWAT team would get called, and Peter Jennings would be doing special reports from the school parking lot for weeks.

My how my small town has changed.

 

[JohnK]

I remember that game garretwc, we played the same thing although it was called TAG (The Assassination Game). The name alone would be enough to get kids expelled today.

To the best of my knowledge none of the people who played that have been involved in a shooting either.

 

[Gnull]

Well.. Im still a young'un (20) and here I would have been arrested on the spot for even entertaining the notion of perhaps even thinking of possibly carrying in school(we had a Police station across the street too) You were not even allowed to bring anything that even resembled a weapon of any kind. Even butter knives were grounds for expulsion. I'm sure even talking aloud about firearms would have at least got me sent to the school councilor.

 

[garrettwc]

I remember that game garretwc, we played the same thing although it was called TAG (The Assassination Game). The name alone would be enough to get kids expelled today.

To the best of my knowledge none of the people who played that have been involved in a shooting either.

That's right! it was called TAG. Gotcha was the name of the movie(I looked it up at Amazon).

Yeah, no bad endings in my group either. Out of our TAG unit, we now have a bank president, and two small business owners, among other things.

 

[Kcustom45]

I graduated high school in 2001 so things were already pretty bad. I did however occasionally forget I had my Cold Steel folder in my pocket. Cordex and I actually did a video for our German class in which we advertised hearing protection.
It opened showing me shooting a G3 and him shooting a Colt 45. The teacher didn't show it in class, but if I remember correctly we got a good grade.

 

[Crimper-D]

Borrowed my neighbor's Thompson SMG

For a history class... the teacher was a WWII & Korea vet who had toted one in France.
It was a Deactivated War Trophy... My only problem was getting the gun back from the teacher

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

I refinished the stock of my 20 gauge topper in junior high for a woodshop project, in 96.

I was lucky, because my woodshop teacher is a pretty big shotgun hunter.

 

[Peter Gun]

I went to high school in super liberal land after Pc took off. silver Spring, MD in '80's. We played TAG and the principal forbid the game. I was suspended one day because we refused to stop playing. Interestingly enough when I was sent to the office, no one noticed the three knives I always carried that would get me expelled. That schools administration had a real knack for focusing on the unimportant facets of student life.

 

[STW]

My only question is how did those carrying knives manage to wait until high school? I've been carrying some type of knife since 2nd grade and have worn out the handles of some just from the friction of the pocket rubbing on them. I do remember a guy bringing a shotgun to a speech class in college to explain how to clean it. The teacher suggested it might not be something he should do again. That was 30 years ago at UC Davis. They'd probably arrest him at the city line now that town has gotten so liberal.

 

[Peter Gun]

I dont think anyone mentioned STARTING to carry in high school.
I might have been a slow starte, though, as I was not allowed a knife until I was 12.

 

[10-Ring]

No, not in high school. But later, when I moved to Southern CA for college, I started carrying...more so in the beginning when I didn't know many people or many places.

 

[inthefork]

When I was about 10, I carried gus to school for show and tell. A Krieghoff drilling, an svt 40, and a couple others. This was around 75 or 76. It was no big deal then. The world has gone mad.

m16

 

[Britt]

What amazes me is not just how much things change, but just how quickly as well. I graduated high school in '92 and did in fact carry a Winchester 52 to and from school for rifle team practice as early as 8th grade. By the time I was in high school a Mossberg 500 or Remington 870 was a constant companion in my truck from September through February. Then again, this was in West Texas and bird hunting is a quasi-religious experience in my family. Only trouble that ever happened was one day when all pocket knives were officially "banned" from schools. The principal took them up and returned them at the end of the day. Nothing was ever said about them afterwards and I doubt if too many quit carrying them altogether. Having done so since the ripe old age of 8, I certainly didn't. Just didn't mention it too loudly either. BD

 

[4570Rick]

In my Jr. year in school, I made a pair of Broad Swards, sabor ground and razor sharp. Got an A+ in machine shop.

Then I started making cannons. Little brass reproductions at first, then working models out of steel.

The high point was when I finished my .75 cal smooth bore and fired it...at school!!!

Did I mention I went to HS in Left Angeles.

 

[charleym3]

I went to HS in the mid 70s. There was an atmosphere of unrest in those days. A significant number of the student body was armed. Including some folks that no-one would ever suspect.
In college in the late 70s, I was on the ROTC rifle team and I on two occasions, I didn't have time to store my rifle before a class, so I took it with me. I left it in it's case in the back of the room. No one said a thing.
About the same time, I took an airline flight somewhere. I carried my cased rifle down the jet way and the attendant stored it in the cockpit.

Those were the days.

 

[Sisco]

Carried a Mossberg .22 into school, stored it in my locker most of the day then took it out to woodshop and repaired the stock. No one thought anything of it. Of course this wasn't in the last year or two.