I took a Colt 1903 .380 automatic to middle school to make a leather holster for it. Kept it in my locker until class and then the teacher kept it for me in her desk till I was done. My high school friends and I always had our Marlin 60’s or Ruger 10/22’s in our trucks and would stop at the road by the school and shoot pop cans from cafeteria. This was in the 80’s.
Riding my bike by myself at 7 or 8 to and from my grandmother’s house in Mt. Vernon, New York in 1969.
People were different to each other, kinder, more ladies and gentlemen like.
I still conduct myself this way to strangers until they prove otherwise.
Pray for America. God Blessed Us and Still does! We are under tremendous Watchcare.
There was a shooting range in the basement of our High School. Probably for ROTC.