It is a game, as my legal instructor likes to say. I have a ccw so can be within, but not on except in my car, 1000 feet if a school in my state, Colorado. If a ccw friend from New Mexico visits and we go for a drive, by federali law I cannot drive past a school.
Few people know this but the high school next to a park near me leases part of the park parking lot which means DURING SCHOOL HOURS that part of the parking lot is school property. After class it is not.
A ccw can have a gun IN THE CAR on school property. Get out to walk ti the trunk to secure it is a violation of the law.
When I was a kid in the 1960’s, my public school taught me “what life was like in the USSR”. I remember as a kid asking myself, “why don’t the people fight back? How can they live day to day in this prison of a country?”
I’m an adult now and look at the laws under which we live. It’s incremental. We just get used to our freedoms being chipped away until we end up in a ludicrous situation like the one you describe in your post.
But we all just adjust to the new laws, as Dagney Taggart tried to do throughout Atlas Shrugged. We simply have too much comfort to lose. And the government tries to keep it that way.
But I gave up TV back in 1997 and have no been spoon fed what I’m supposed to believe. I see the US as a “kinder and gentler” USSR. They don’t “disappear” people to gulags. Rather, they raid your mom and pop business for “structuring”, or confiscate any cash in your car in a pullover because, well, if you have a lot of money on you it means you are up to no good.
And then you live on the street or, possibly, join the largest prison population in the world.
Yeah, We’re the good guys...