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Remember When!

chumchumchumchum Member Posts: 847 ✭✭
edited January 2013 in Gun Rights and Constitutional Law
I told my kids, I can remember when I was in school! We had a rifle team and actually shot guns in the school! You could also bring your own match rifle to school for practice and matches. In wood shop we made stocks. In metal shop we sportier rilfes(some guys would now cry to see what we done to them). Heck we were even able to carry a knife sheathed on are belts. All this and the worst thing that ever happened was a few fist fights to settle some problems!
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  • chris8X57chris8X57 Member Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We had a history teacher bring in his collection of Winchester 73s and Colt SAAs and pass them around the class. Not one administration person in our school even raised an eyebrow!
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  • BGHillbillyBGHillbilly Member Posts: 1,927 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We sold magazine subscriptions as a 'fund raiser' for FFA. Guns were the big incentive prizes. Out of about a hundred students usually had a 94 or 2, a couple of marlin 336s, 870's and a bunch of Marlin model 60/70s go home with kids. PR guy would come in at kickoff and spread them all out to get everybody hyped up to sell.
    Our FFA chapter really did not need the fund raiser that much, it was more about the values it taught. Not having a large family or being a salesman I think the most I took home was a pocket knife and a Case Guard 30 that I still have after about 30 years.
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  • nyforesternyforester Member Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I brought my H&R sixteen single shot to metal shop so the teacher could silver weld the front site back on.

    I carried it down the hall and not one person looked twice.

    That was 1980
    Abort Cuomo
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  • dustinfoxdustinfox Member Posts: 393 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember my friend bringing his new hunting rifle in to show the class. The girls weren't to impressed but the "boys" passed it around in home room for a look. I never heard of a "school shooting" until later on in my adult life.

    Why can't people (politicians) start using some common sense and try to figure out what is different now. What has changed?
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