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Man we’ve come a long way in a short time. Only 42 yo I remember growing up in Ohio not far from Ashtabula. Me and all my friends from the age of 12 or 13 all had guns. Rifles, shotguns, and handguns.

We all kept them in our bedrooms along with the ammo, no big deal.

Later during high school many of us drove to school with our hunting rifles and or shotguns hung up in a rack across the back window of a pickup truck parked in the school parking lot. Again, no big deal.

I didn’t know of a school in Ohio that didn’t have a shooting team and gun safety classes were part of gym class.

Now kids are kicked out of school for merely drawing a picture of a gun or wearing a t-shirt that depicts one. Pathetic!

“I didn’t know of a school in Ohio that didn’t have a shooting team and gun safety classes were part of gym class.”
I’m 20 years older than you, but I can say that I never knew of a school in Ohio that had those classes or teams. Maybe rural schools did, but Independence did not. Neither did University School.

I can envision an imaginary situation where the principal, an alpha male, red-blooded patriot girded with an extra helping of common sense, goes on an extended missionary pursuit over the course of a year. During his absence, various occurances lead to the sad state of affairs at the end, wherein even wearing a shirt with the weapon depicted is frowned upon and punished.

Well, our principal finally returns. Throughout his walkthroughs, he encounters a young man with an AK-47 screenprint on his shirt sitting in the office. "Why are you here, son?" "My shirt is against the rules, sir." Principal, looking perplexed, probes, "Whose rules?" "The board's I guess." "No No NO! Go back to class, and take this hall pass with you." "Thank you. We missed you, sir!"

Later he visits the gym. The kids are doing push-ups - but from the knee! "What's going on here?" Mrs. Tate comes over and says, "Hi! Welcome back! Oh, we modified the training program in accordance with the new sensitivity doctrine enacted during your absence. Some kids just don't have it in the pecks to handle full push-ups, so, ya know..." "As you were before. All: as of this moment, the sensitivy doctrine is dead. We're Americans, not pussies. We're here to learn to be the best educated, best prepared American Citizens we can be, and these changes in my absence have only hindered that. Now, as to restitution to these poor children who have suffered a full schoolyear of this poppycop, we'll have to think of some way to make it up to them... Now, how much money did we have in the exansion fund? $1,300,000. Boys and girls, we're going to build a SHOOTING RANGE right here at this school, and will be establishing a some new new sports: marksmanship and skeet shooting. Boisterous applause! Chants: "Principal! Principal! glad you're back!"