[Iron Munro]

When I was a kid growing up in a small town we walked to school carrying our .22 rifles and kept them in the school lockers during the day.

After school we walked with the rifles about 2 miles down the town’s two main streets to the riverside open landfill dump to shoot rats for target practice.

Then we walked home with the rifles several miles back the way we came.

No one ever gave us a second glance in the school or on the streets.

Today that state has some of the most foolish gun-fearing-wussie laws in the country.

[Undecided 2012]

Funny you said that a kid just walked by my house with a 22 rifle over his shoulder.

[elkfersupper]

I used to carry my .22 rifle on the handlebars of my bicycle to the local drugstore. I would leave the rifle outside, walk inside, buy a box of cartridges, a pack of cigarettes, 2 candy bars, a Dr. Pepper and walk out a minute later with $1.00 less than I had going in, looking forward to a fun afternoon down at the lake.

This was 1961. I was 9 years old.

Today, that would attract a SWAT team and a herd of do-gooders trying to get me away from the candy and cigarettes, plus life in prison for my parents.

What used to be a fun afternoon has been turned into a dozen crimes.

[Fresh Wind]