During hunting season shot guns were visibly on racks in the back of pickup trucks in our high school parking lot. No one thought a thing about it. Knives were visible on persons within the school as well. No incidences. What does that tell you about how far our nation has gone a rat hole?
I cast and finish machined a functional quarter scale replica of a Civil War era cannon complete with cannon balls.
For my final grade, I actually fired the cannon and the school newspaper wrote an article in the paper.
Try THAT in todays school environment.
It was a different time and place.