This thread would be dead if not for you. Thank you for your gun and your thread bumps every other day. Makes me wish I had a gun.
Took you 40 minutes to realize my sarcasm. How long would it take you to pull your weapon in a classroom? Oh boy
Lol I gotta be honest with you, clearly I don't feel like arming everyone is the answer. I've never fired a weapon in my life but wish I did. My father was on the rifle team when he was in high school back in 66. He's dead now. But I don't have a clue what to do with a weapon. Humor is my weapon, though it won't save my life. My father taught me that.
It seems crazy to me that we used to openly allow kids to bring rifles to high school and didn't have the issues we have today with so many school shootings. We kept lunatics locked up back then and there were a lot more single worker households. I'm guessing those are two major factors but it's a complex issue.
I thought about that too...bringing a rifle to school now would result in screams and people getting tackled
when i was in high school, the wednesday before thanksgiving, there would be enough guns in the parking lot to hold off an invasion. students and teachers heading to the woods right after the bell. i can promise you no one thought of using that gun for anything else. and it wasn't like there weren't plenty of fights and rivalries either.
I'm a bit younger than you guys. I graduated high school in 2001, there was such a shift in everything after Columbine. I got in a fair number of fights and it was at most a 3 day suspension then all of a sudden it became an assault charge. Couple that with the bullying issue and how different "classes" of kids are treated (jocks, skaters, nerds, ect..) and how you aren't even allowed to defend yourself or another student if something is happening and people can't figure out why there are so many school shootings and why teenage suicide rates are so high. It's more complex than even that but if you want to start somewhere with trying to fix the problem you don't have to look much farther than that kid in California who got kicked out of school and off the football team for stopping another student from beating up a blind kid.
