Things you CAN'T do with guns anymore...

[DougW]

When I was in High School in the mid 70's, the Navy JROTC had 1903 Springfield rifles for drill and competitions. They also had an ammo locker for the 30.06 AMMO FOR THE SPRINGFIELD RIFLES, WHICH THEY SHOT IN THE COMPETITIONS!

Shotguns and rifles in a gun rack in trucks in the parking lot were a normal sight in the fall. And, this was in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

 

[sierrabravo45]

I am 25 now, so when I was in 3rd Grade around 90 or so, we were reading Little House on the Prairie, My father came in and talked about Muzzleloaders, how they worked, what they used them for back then etc. I forget if he brought just one in or two, I was young but still remember it. We took old west photos too, we did use a Red Ryder though. AND THAT WAS IN NJ!!!!!!!

 

[MDMadrid]

For me it is not so much what I can't do because it is now against the law, but because of the area in the country I live in now. When I was a boy I lived on a ranch in Wyoming. I could shoot off of my front porch all day long and not have to worry about hitting anything...like the neighbors! Now I live in South Carolina and I have to take my son to the range just to shoot.

I also remember going to school with a small "old timer" pocket knife in my front pocket and 4 inch "boot knife" on my right boot. I don't guess my son will be doing that!

Another thing that worries me is that my son knows that I CCW. I am afraid that he may slip up one day and tell his teachers or something...and it may cause me to have to do some unnecessary explaining to them.

 

[fireflyfather]

I am afraid that he may slip up one day and tell his teachers or something...and it may cause me to have to do some unnecessary explaining to them.

As a teacher myself, I can categorically state: Whatever your son says, your CCW is none of their business. We are mandatory child abuse reporters, true, but CCW is not child abuse, so screw the teachers if they have a problem with it.

 

[Hokkmike]

Thanks to all for your interesting reading. We apparently have a lot of educators here.

 

[andrewdl007]

Two years ago when I was a sr. in highschool, we had a student debate I forget what it was about but one of the participants started talking about fathers who took their sons hunting and how that means the fathers were awful people for encouraging their children to murder. Ive hunted duck, quail, and dove with my dad since I was 7 or 8 and I really dont think Im worse off for it. It just goes to show what antis allow in schools.

 

[Liko81]

Can't go and practce shooting at tin cans out in the woods

Sure you can; it just has to be your own woods. Or maybe your state is less enlightened. Here even in the DFW area you can drive 20 minutes to Mesquite/Crandall and all you see is ranchland. Make friends at a local bar and guess what? Free range time. An old g/f of mine had a Ruger 77/22, and we went out once to her grandpa's ranch and shot the bejeezus out of some cans and an old orange cooler we found in a rubbish heap. It was fun, and it got me interested in plinking as a fun way to spend an afternoon.

 

[mekender]

I often have the same thoughts. I do think that a child mentioning a gun or drawing a gun being punished is beyond absurd. I can't believe that this hasn't been challenged in the courts yet.

i take my 8 year old shooting all the time... my 2 younger ones will get the same when they get older... im just hoping that something idiotic happens like this because i for one will not sit quietly and let some hippie pacifist impose their anti agenda on my students...

 

[novaDAK]

I talked about guns with a few friends right around my teachers in HS last year, got a few funny looks but I really didn't care...even found my economics teacher was pretty conservative and pro-gun too which was pretty cool
However one or two of my other teachers were pretty liberal and openly said that they support more gun control.
I graduated last year so I'm happy I got out of there before it got any worse. Now in college it's rare to find people like myself though I know they exist (look at gmustudentsforconcealedcarry.org) but I've never met any yet. At least I keep in touch and still meet up with my friends from high school and shoot the s**t about stuff

 

[WaltonS]

You also can't turn a TV on with a rifle. You can sure as heck shut 'em off, though. (No, I've never done it. Have contemplated it, though -- I hate TV)

 

[The Deer Hunter]

Of course, middle schoolers are never exposed to sex and wanton violence without a context or mentor to discuss it with OUTSIDE of school.....

I think I learned more about sex in the 6th and 7th from my friends than all the years of "health"(new, more politically correct term for 'sex ed') I was forced to take.

 

[SageMonkey]

Some of these things are more about where one lives than what year it is...

In Taos County, NM, I do see people walking (and rarely hitchhiking) with a rifle, on the way to or from hunting. There are still shotgun racks in people's pickup windows, and they are sometimes used. Some friends and I will check out each others new guns in a parking lot when we run into each other (fairly descretely so as not to scare the tourists). We will talk about new guns, guns we'd like, reloading, etc in WalMart and restaurants, just like any other topic. I have seen a couple of guns hung on the wall, including functional antiques in one restaurant. And I fairly regularly shoot tin cans in the woods (sure enough of them up there, after all). Never shot a tv, though, since I don't own one...

Unfortunately, I think our schools are just as crazy as everyone else's about knives, guns, etc. They bring in the police for a shoving match on the playground, and the highschool has "lockdown" (prepping them for prison).

 

[kd7nqb]

As one of the younger members, I remember when I was in 8th grade we had to decorate civil war soldier cut outs, I got in trouble because mine included a rifle in his arms. ON A SOLDIER

In addition my brother was recently pulled into his high school admins office because they felt he was checking out too many books from the library on the subject of firearms (about 4 total). This was especially funny because it was from the school library but apparently those who check them out are all killers.

 

[SteyrAUG]

I still remember back in the early 80s, my brothers car being loaded with rifles and shotguns in the High School parking lot because he and his friends were going shooting after school. Particularly amusing was the day the prinicipal had them all out in the parking lot, trunk opened so he could investigate the firearms in the trunk. Turns out the Remington my brother favored was exactly the same one the principal was considering for himself and he wanted to look at it.

So there they were, middle of the school day, trunk full of guns with the principal praciticing skeet swings with my brothers firearm. Today that would result in a SWAT response.

I can remember stories of my father and his Junior High buddies walking through town with their Srpingfield and Enfield rifles slung over their shoulders, pockets full of ammo, on their way to the edge to town so they could do some "plinking." The only comments they got were along the lines of "Doing some shooting boys?" with a grin.