My friends and I read gun magazines in school in the late eighties. My best friend wore camo.Nowadays if we were still in school, we might even be booted out or sent to a psych doctor.
My co-worker said he used to carry guns to school in Louisiana in the mid sixties...
1972, when I was a kid living in New Jersey, I was on a trailer camping trip with my parents. They were surprised to see kids in New Mexico (around Carlsbad) going to school carrying rifles (and there weren't Columbines back then).
My friends and I used to play mumbledepeg in a corner of the schoolyard with our penknives. I still remember the first few moves, including "jump the fence" over your left hand. I don't remember exactly, we probably hid behind a tree or a bush while we were doing it.