I swear I don't get it. People willfully making themselves incapable and nearly helpless. I see folks wearing pajamas and slippers to Walmart. Frequently.
Men and women used to carry at least a pen knife in their pocket or purse, but not now. Is it a side effect of silly "no tolerance" policies that suspend 5 yr olds for drawing a picture of a gun or knife?
To be honest...these people have been around LONG before. I very clearly remember going to the grocery stores as a kid and seeing ladies dressed up in flannel nightgowns with curlers in their hair.
And a lot of those ladies didn't have a knife or gun with them, in their purses or otherwise. Nail files and fingernail clippers, maybe. But their purses alone probably would have classified as weapons with all the stuff they had weighing them down.
And Walmart hasn't been much different over the decades, either.
As for stupid stuff like this being an outgrowth of the "no tolerance" policies such as you mentioned...maybe, maybe not. As I said, I'm not really seeing anything different from my perspective.
With respect to the "no tolerance" policies in schools, I sense a potential issue with "Daddy's Little Troublemaker" coming up in school, but it just makes me smile when I think about it.
(Daddy's Little Troublemaker is my 14 year old daughter, who's been a teenager most of her life.)
She showed me a picture of a gun she drew and put on the cover of her three-ring binder and told me she went around to kids in her class, showing it to several and asking "Do you feel threatened or scared of this?"
(By the way...it's a nice drawing, too. She's quite the artist.)
Why does she do this? Because, God bless her, she sees the total stupidity of people in positions of authority who willfully claim they cannot tell the difference between the absurdly unrealistic caricatures of firearms and the real deal...such as Pop Tarts and thumb/forefingers. That and she TOTALLY does not buy into the gun control crowd's propaganda.
Good Lord, for all the grief I have with that girl at times, she can actually think with that noggin of hers...when she wants to, anyway.
If she ever gets into trouble for it, I'll stand proudly next to her every step of the way and document the heck out of everything for posterity.
And all the while, I'll be pointing out to the authorities via the media that having a bunch of people in the education system who cannot tell the obvious difference between a hand drawn picture on a flat sheet of paper that weights 4 grams and a real gun that weighs 2.5 pounds does not bode well for a group of people who claim to need pay raises all the time so that they can teach better.