Texas! First Alabama, then Oklahoma now Texas! Why not go back to the days before Dec 1968 when a 14 year old boy could walk into a store and buy a box of .22s for 45 cents! No questions asked. I did it in 1961! And GUNS were available everywhere!
Guns were more available then as you could get a gun at a gas station, pawn shop, hardware store, clothing store, record shop, book store, liquor store, feed store, grocery store. They were everywhere! Cash and carry. No background check, no waiting period, no paperwork. No ID, Just look old enough.
Or you could drop a check in the mail and one would be shipped to your door.
No school shootings back then, mass murders rare. Three I can remember were mass murders was one in 1949 New Jersey with a Luger pistol,
1966 Richard Speck no guns involved. he used a knife and strangling cord, and Charles Whitman using a bolt action rifle.
.45 cents? You were living pretty high on the hog shooting long rifle 22’s. Dad made me buy shorts at .25 cents, occasionally I got long if I could find an extra dime in the couch cushions. My Remington burnt up a lot of 22 shorts. My Remington nylon single shot cost 19.95 at KMart in 1961. I got one just like it in my safe. It cost me a lot more when I finally found another. They only made 4000 or so back then. It feels really good when I shoulder it. Muscle memory still works at 72. I wore out a dog or two running those Missouri hills back then. Some day I’ll shoot this one. It looks new and I haven’t broke down and done it yet. Vending machine or Kemps store, if dad was still alive I’d still just get 25 cents. 🙂
The good old days.