Posted by Hal/ Eastern WA on February 01, 2014 at 13:51:48 from (97.114.109.222):
In Reply to: Re: Another funny posted by ShadetreeRet on January 31, 2014 at 22:21:17:
I ALWAYS carried a very sharp pocket knife when I was in high school, as did most of the other guys. There were never any knife fights, at least that I heard about, and I think I would have. A few fist fights, but only one that lasted more than about 10 total punches.
In junior high, it was the "fashion" to carry a rat-tail comb in your back pocket, with the rat-tail sharpened to a fine point. I am still surprised that this was allowed, but most of the boys and some of the girls did it. Again, I never heard of someone poking someone else with their comb, but I stuck myself in the wrist with my own comb, and decided that was a stupid thing to do.
I lived about 3 miles from the high school, with fields and a bunch of timber in between. During deer season, a few times I brought my .30-.30 rifle to school ON THE SCHOOL BUS, put it in my locked locker during the school day and then walked home carrying the rifle, hunting along the way. I never got a deer that way, but it was fun to try. I was not the only kid that did that, and I bet that half of the student vehicles in the parking lot had rifles in them. It was just accepted that things would be that way in hunting season. Was there ever any kind of a gun incident? Heck no!
Today in my State, it would be a felony crime for a student to bring a firearm to school. They would be arrested and probably expelled forever. I do not know what would happen with a pocket knife, but I suspect that having one at school might result in a suspension and confiscation of the knife. Of course, they also suspend kids for defending themselves for fighting...which I have gone round and round with the school board over.
Things are different now than they were in the 60"s. I suspect that some of the problems are due to trying to "mainstream" all students. There were some "goofy" students in our school, but most of them have grown up to be decent normal adults. The real scary ones were not there. I also think that some of the problems today are results of parents taking drugs before having children, but that is just a theory.
Have the schools over-reacted? Probably, in many cases. But the fact remains that sometimes these days, for whatever reasons, insane persons do insane acts.
Most of the situations which involved shootings at schools that I have read about involved persons who could and should have been identified as possible threats beforehand. Maybe if that possibility had been recognized, the incidents might have been prevented. From what I have read, most if not all of the suspect"s behavior stood out and should have been noticed.
It"s a new world out there. I think that things were better and safer during the Cold War. I wish I had all the answers.
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