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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Interesting how times change.

Back in the day we used to bring our guns TO school. Gun safety was a class offered a couple of times a year, and consisted of both classroom teaching and instruction on a range near the school. It was nothing to see several kids during the time the class was offered bringing their guns on the school bus (cased, of course). Guns were stored in the principal's office until it was time to use them on the range but ammunition was usually carried loose in our pockets, and no one gave it a second thought.

Oh--and we carried knives too. No self-respecting lad back then would EVER have left the house without is trusty Barlow or Ka-bar. Useful in school especially if the pencil sharpener was on the fritz.

Interesting though...back then the three biggest behavior "problems" at school were chewing gum, running in the halls and surreptitiously passing notes in class.

What changed?

Back in the day in country or small towns most pickups had gun rack in back window full of shotguns and rifles.