something has changed in our society, when I was a youth; Teenagers had ready access to all sorts of shotguns, rifles, and pistols. it was common to go plinking after school in the woods with a bunch of kids. Moms would shoo the armed boys out of the house ‘go outside and play’
My guess is the change is the psychotropic drugs which are force fed to our boys in great doses. Every single shooter in recent years was on prescription drugs.
We had a knifing in our Jr high school. We had one shooting on campus in HS but it was after school.
“something has changed in our society,”
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Ya think?
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The mothers aren’t home anymore, the kids watch vicious video games, down load porn, and generally are growing up like animals. This is one of the results.
While that may very well play a roll, my ex had a pretty good hypothesis.
In this new world of everybody wins, everybody gets a trophy....this generation has NO idea how to handle rejection or failure and they just explode.
Some of my classmates were known as Jackson Whites, mixed race related to the Ramapough Indians. Oftentimes they’d be walking along Rte 59 in Hilburn,NY making their way into the woods by the Mahwah River carrying 22 rifles to hunt small game, and nobody gave it a second thought.
Back in 1960, kids often brought handguns, rifles, knives to school. We often sat around sharpening knives after lunch.
We also knew kids who brought rifles, handguns or large knives to school were in the LEATHERCRAFT class making holsters and scabbards.
First handgun brought to school that I remember was in 1956, McCormick School in Farmington NM. It was a single shot military style percussion cap pistol for show and tell.
The drugs given to our young men and women do warp their personalities.
Heck, in 1974, when I was a freshman in high school, I was on the JROTC rifle team, and we had a 50' range in the basement of the school.
I gave a gun safety presentation in my speech class, and had a rifle and shotgun as "props" for the presentation. I dropped them off at the school office at the start of the day, picked them up for class, dropped them off at the office after class, then took them home on the school bus after school.
Popular societal attitudes, ethics, and how children are raised have certainly changed for the worse since those days.
Mark
Yes when I was in HS all the guys had guns in a rack in their PU trucks. Nobody ever got shot.