Sikhs-kirpan.
Christian-Bible.
Pagan-athame.
Heathen-scramasax
Works for me as long as everyone plays nice.
I carried a Buck folder or a Benchmade Old Timer until I graduated...
Circa 1966 Lockport, Louisiana at Lockport High School
Many of us had shotguns in our vehicles during hunting season as we would hunt after school. The principal and the cops knew this. Hell, some of them where on gun racks in the back window of the pickups. There was not one incidence of the use of a firearm that was illegal or wrong.
Relative to knives you could carry what you wanted as long as it was legal in the State of Louisiana. There was not one incidence of a knife crime at my high school.
Was there the occasional fight at school? Yes there was. It was done with fists. Oddly enough those in the fights often became friends in the end. It is all part of growing up.
The reason for crime in our schools is not guns and knives. The reason is the breakdown of civil moral society at the hands of progressive liberalism. In the 1960s we called them communists and or socialists.