Posted on 02/19/2018 4:56:05 PM PST by D-fendr
The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges.
After another school shooting, it's time to ask: what changed?
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Send all the murderous uncivilized ferals there. Some will go directly to prison as a result of their behavior. Maybe they can get the training they were denied growing up in dysfunctional households.
The other schools, actual teaching facilities, should also be hardened and staffed with armed personnel.
“After school 8 or 10 of us would go to the fields and kill ducks until the sun went down.”
With us, it was pheasant season. Probably 50-75 of us would rush out at the end of school, so we could spend that short time between that and sundown driving out of town and walking the ditches and cornrows, so there were at least that many shotguns plus a few rifles in the cars in the lot.
Carried a boyscout knife until I graduated. Scouting taught you the care, rules, and maintenance of the knife before you could carry it. One rule was, it had to be sharp!
I mean sharp enough to shave hair off your arm. If anyone found your knife to be dull or had a knicked blade, you lost it. You might be able to meet with the troop leaders and maybe get it back, maybe.
Satan fears to tread where God is present
In the late 50’s my Brother took his .22 Rifle to School every week when the Gun Club practiced at the School’s Shooting Range in the Gymnasium Basement.
This was in New York, when New York was sane.
I know. It was fun. We never had issues. We had discipline in school quite severe doscipline .
I’m from Jax, FL. When I was in HS most of the boys had gun racks in their trucks and a rifle in the rack. The trucks were all parked out in the school parking lot and nobody ever got shot.
What changed? Hmm, let’s see...God disappeared, discipline disappeared, hard study disappeared, feminism appeared, video games appeared, Ritalin appeared, internet appeared, gender confusion appeared. Hmm...
THIS
I think the prescription drugs are the biggest actual culprit, but the rest contributes.
Thanks for your post.
>>All and all a different time I reckon.
Yep. A shame.
Thanks for your post.
>>>All this in just a few short decades...
It’s amazing what can happen to cultural values in generation or two.
A good parent would give them a spanking for making such fools of themselves.
And when we saw these kids walking in the halls with their guns we weren't afraid. It never (and I mean NEVER) occurred to any of us that some kid carrying a gun in school would start shooting at us)
The worst problems reported in schools at the time was ‘kids chewing gum in class’...
We could return items to stores if they didn't fit without filling out forms and showing our driver's license. We were taught to respect our parents. We were told stealing was wrong. Ethics was presented as a set of rules to follow - not as something 'situational'.
No one beat up teachers. We stated our day with a pledge of allegiance to the flag... often followed by a short prayer... Our movies didn't glorify violence or praise the values of victim-hood and grievance.
>>>"We were taught to respect our parents.."
We *had* parents.
If we want to look for "what's changed" we can start here – not with guns.
Your chart tells the story... a map of culture breakdown.
Here’s another ‘kid’ who’s gone evil...luckily they caught this one in time.
CLARKSBURG, Md. (WJLA) - Multiple guns, including an AR-15 style rifle, ammunition, grenades, a ballistic vest, and a list of grievances against fellow students were found at the home of the Maryland teen charged with bringing a loaded gun and knife to Clarksburg High School last week, according to prosecutors and a Montgomery County police officer who spoke in court Tuesday
Also looking back: We’ve had corn/sugar breakfast cereals for 65 years, Ritalin for kids for 56 years, illicit drug popularity for 53 years, home video games for 46 years, Doom-style shooter v games for 25 years, internert streaming video for 22 years and smart phone video for 16 years.
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