Flashback 30 Years: Guns Were in Schools ... and Nothing Happened

PJ Media ^ | FEBRUARY 15, 2018 | J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS

[D-fendr]

The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges.

After another school shooting, it's time to ask: what changed?

[D-fendr]

This article is the best rebuttal to the Parkland kids and those politicians who manipulate them.

Guns and semi-automatic weapons have been with us a very long time. Where I grew up there were guns in schools, and everyone I knew had access to powerful weapons.

What has changed?

It's not the guns. It is the culture. This is what liberals do not see - or do not want others to see. They have created the culture of school shootings.

I suggest we link to and spread this article in rebuttal to this latest gun-scare on social media and everywhere we can.

[mplc51]

Born in Minnesota I always carried rifles in my car. 1970 GTO

[Reno89519]

We had a range in school. No one was ever threatened or shot.

[ThunderSleeps]

At my high school hunting rifles in gun racks were fairly common. In college, I took a shooting class as a gym credit. Never had a problem, ever.

[DesertRhino]

Anti-depressants and ritalin. The revolutionary socialists teaching a witches brew of America hate, racism, homosexuality and other perversions, and brutal repression of everything male.

That’s what is difference.

[raiderboy]

I had a shotgun in my truck back window in the high school parking lot!1 After school 8 or 10 of us would go to the fields and kill ducks until the sun went down. In fact , I had a fully loaded 30-30 in the window for coyotes and killed 17 my senior year.

[yarddog]

In an episode of “Leave It To Beaver” a kid actually brings an old gun to school on the bus. I think it was for show and tell.

[DesertRhino]

I have nothing to “learn” from a few high school kids.

Seen and not heard.

[Kipp]

I graduated high school in 1969 in a semi-rural area. Probably about 2/3 of the families had guns in their homes. At the high school parking lot, there were a few pick-up trucks with rifles in gun racks. I don't recall anyone threatening anyone with a gun.

Yep, it was a different culture back then. Few people locked their doors, and people left their keys in their cars when parked. When PSA announcements on TV started running saying saying if you don't take your keys out of your car and lock it and your car gets stolen, it's your fault. My high school English teacher railed at that ad, saying it's not the car owner's fault, it's the fault of the person who stole the car. It was a very different world back then.

[sergeantdave]

The millennial generation is not only made up of weakling, brainwashed pajama boys. That’s the incorrect presentation by the propagandists at the NYT and despicable Washington Post, paid for by the Nazi Soros and the CIA.

There’s at least several divisions of Marines, Navy SEALs and Army Airborne who are millennials who will crush the snowflakes at their leisure.

[elpadre]

Interesting is that in my youth all the teens had rifles and/or shotguns. But killings and school massacres were unheard of. Weapons were kept in our cars and pickups in the parking lot and everyone knew it. This was probably not true in the urban areas, but in the rest of the country we had plenty of guns and no violence. So, what has changed.

Our society has changed and taken a leftward turn and people’s reason for being has turned upside down, their minds are screwed up.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Flashback 30 Years: Guns Were in Schools”

And so was God.

[D-fendr]

Anti-depressants and ritalin. The revolutionary socialists teaching a witches brew of America hate, racism, homosexuality and other perversions, and brutal repression of everything male. That’s what is difference.

And more. The point, simply put, is that what changed is not guns it's culture. Younger people don't realize - or know - this. We need to hammer this very simple point home.

What changed?

[captain_dave]

And a lot of boys carried pocket knives too. From age 13 I carried a Swiss Army knife to school just about every day. Sometimes a teacher would ask to borrow it.

[alfa6]

I have posted this before but what the heck.

Back when I was in HS from 67 to 71. That was 1967 not 1867:-) Part of my freshman year and all of my sophomore and junior year I was the brigade armorer. I was responsible for 40 M1 Garands complete except for the firing pins. The pins where tagged and in a safe in the cadres office. I also had maybe 30 .22 target rifles all but 5 were Winchester 52C or D models. The other 5 were Remington 516Ts IIRC. The Garands left about a third of the way into my sophomore year to be replaced by an equal number of 1903A3 Springfields that had been demilled:-(.
The Garands and their replacements were used by our drill team.

I was also responsible for any firearms brought to school. Notable firearms were an SKS fresh from Vietnam, a BAR with out a mag and a M1 Thompson! Also had various civilian firearms, mostly .22s but a few others as well. Just about everything I checked in was a long rifle very few pistols showed up.

The rifle range was under the visitors bleachers on the football field. And being a JrROTC high school the rifle team usually took 1st place most years. There were 10 schools in our league, I think and FWIW our range was about in the middle for accommodations. A couple of HS had really nice layouts and there was 1 or 2 where I think the range was just thrown together by a couple of folks one weekend.

All and all a different time I reckon.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[yuleeyahoo]

I was on the rifle team. Every day the teacher handed me a rifle and I spent an entire period plinking away.

[SuperLuminal]

When I was 8, my grandfather bought me a bolt-action 22 rifle for my birthday (this was 11-days before the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor). He bought it from a Drug Store/Pharmacy.

The day after my birthday I brought it to school (without ammo of course) to show classmates. Teacher was about a hundred years old...She told me that if I scratched or broke anything she would bend the barrel across my behind. She had already busted a couple of rulers across my behind that fall.

Kept it there for two days since it got a lot of use at recess and lunch when we all played "cops and robbers" in the playground...A couple of weeks later, the game changed to "Americans and slant-eyed Jap devils".

[SuperLuminal]

When I was 8, my grandfather bought me a bolt-action 22 rifle for my birthday (this was 11-days before the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor). He bought it from a Drug Store/Pharmacy.

The day after my birthday I brought it to school (without ammo of course) to show classmates. Teacher was about a hundred years old...She told me that if I scratched or broke anything she would bend the barrel across my behind. She had already busted a couple of rulers across my behind that fall.

Kept it there for two days since it got a lot of use at recess and lunch when we all played "cops and robbers" in the playground...A couple of weeks later, the game changed to "Americans and slant-eyed Jap devils".

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember a kid bringing an old military pistol to school for show and tell. 1956, Farmington, NM.

[iontheball]

It was a time before the Deep State and Globalists determined that America could not be taken down before it confiscated the guns. It is the same determination that preceded every other aspiring totalitarian takeover in the history of the world. We are witnessing their plan unfold before our eyes.