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To show you how times have changed, my senior wood shop project in 1971, to which I received an A+ was a 45 cal. flintlock rifle and I still have it. I was taking it to my car to take home and the principle who I knew from jr. high walked out into the hall way and said, “ What are doing with that here”. I turned and told him, I had made it here for my senior wood shop project and he asked what grade did I get and I told him and he said “well done”. Times sure have changed.

Today just gnaw your Pop Tart into an L-shape and you will get the death penalty !1

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Time has progressed, laws and toys have changed, but human nature has remained the same.

I was talking about schools, recently, with a close friend of mine. We've been friends for years; attended the same school systems in roughly the same time frame. Used to be that the gun related rules were ignored during hunting season. Students would typically go hunting early in the mornings, then go straight to school. It wasn't uncommon to see deer strapped onto vehicles in the student lot in the mornings. Parents would show up to collect the deer at some point during the day.

Apparently, the blind eyes have been healed. Can't get away with that, anymore.

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On the contrary, the clear eyes backed by rational brains have been blinded by ignorance and hate, thanks to the Statist propagandists and their hysterical useful idiots.

I made a crossbow in jr high wood shop. Like most things, it only took 1 kid to screw that up for everyone. I believe the next year they forbid them. Someone shot at someone, or threatened to, at the school.... I don't remember exactly, hell, might've just been shooting pencils into the ceiling tiles..

You bet things have changed. Kids these days are saying "what's wood shop?"

Viper21 wrote:I made a crossbow in jr high wood shop. Like most things, it only took 1 kid to screw that up for everyone. I believe the next year they forbid them. Someone shot at someone, or threatened to, at the school.... I don't remember exactly, hell, might've just been shooting pencils into the ceiling tiles..

I used to do that with an empty pen tube, a rubber band, and a pencil. That pencil stayed in the ceiling all year! XD

But yeah it's what my dad refers to as "speed bump mentality", which is one or two people speeding on a road so the county overreacts and punishes everyone by putting in a speed bump. Same thing here!

Honestly I feel if someone gets injured or killed doing something stupid it's just thinning the herd. But this speed bump mentality the powers that be have is really just insulting to my intelligence.

We call it "blanket policy regulating" here in the corporate world. As opposed to singling out the knuckleheads, and having to be confrontational, they enact "blanket policies" that affect everyone.

Bluntly, it's cowardice that makes them do it.

They haven't the backbone to tell the offenders, "Listen, no one else is acting up, just you."

The real problem is that the majority of people today don't have enough intelligence to be insulted.

For my senior year science project, I measured the muzzle velocity of a .22LR bolt action rifle. It involved placing a weighted wooden cylinder in a piece of aluminum conduit (which was oriented dead plumb up-and-down), cutting a slot down the side of the conduit and shining a light down the conduit from the top so we could see how far the cylinder went up inside the conduit when we fired a round into it, then firing a round into the cylinder and marking the distance the cylinder was raised by the projectile. Then, since the mass of the cylinder and the displacement was known, the velocity of the bullet could be derived by a simple formula. My advisor for that experiment insisted I conduct it at the school “so he could monitor for safety”. (I think he just thought it was cool way to spend part of his workday) So I brought the rifle to school along with my measuring apparatus, we took it into the crawl space under the auditorium (during school), and we proceeded to fire several rounds and take observations. On the first firing, we discovered the round would split the cylinder and foul it in the conduit. After we banded the cylinder with wire, we fired again, and discovered the cylinder had insufficient mass to absorb the energy of the round within the length of the conduit which resulted in the cylinder hitting the light bulb in the top of the conduit (that’s right, we shot the light out). After that we took about 10 good observations. At the science fair, my exhibit included the rifle clamped into my measurement device, but I did take the bolt out of it. I think a couple of teachers expressed mild disapproval of bringing a gun to the science fair, but officially, nobody said a word about it. Just think: if I’d been born 45 years later, I could have been on Fox News.

SHMIV wrote:......Time has progressed, laws and toys have changed, but human nature has remained the same........

This is why I call the PC weanies "kum-by-ya cretins" -as they're dumber than a bucket of hair. They suffer the delusion that you can change a couple hundred thousand years of evolution (in our current form) with a few rules.........here's your sign.

In '82 I took my Ruger Old Army to school - on the school bus. I walked into the Principal's office before class and set it over behind his desk. He said "What do you have in the duffelbag? and I told him. It was for a GaT demonstration that evening after school. I showed him I didn't have any caps or powder, and he was cool.
Later that day when I picked it up, he walked down to the library with me and watched me give my presentation.

Oh - and from 6th grade on through to graduation, I carried a Craftsman 3 blade stockman on me every day. My 9th grade Biology teacher even let me dissect my fetal pig with it instead of using the school scalpels.

Yeah, times have changed.
and not for the better.

I brought a Gurkha knife to school as part of a Halloween costume in 1984 and had no issues.

When one of my childhood principals found out I was selling Blow-Pops through the black market to other students for an overall healthy profit, she asked me if I had a business license to do so. Unimpressed with her attempted ruse, I eventually replied that I did not. She forced me to abandon my lucrative business venture (due to the fact that I was most likely making more than she was). My middle school was lame...I rebelled as often as I could.

Yeah times have changed alright - one of the grandkids got a timeout the other day for making a gun w/ his finger & making "pew..pew" sounds with another kid

Palladin wrote: Oh - and from 6th grade on through to graduation, I carried a Craftsman 3 blade stockman on me every day. My 9th grade Biology teacher even let me dissect my fetal pig with it instead of using the school scalpels.

Yeah, times have changed.
and not for the better.

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When I was a lad, EVERYBODY (males, that is) carried a pocketknife. That included to school. You weren't dressed without one. Wasn't unknown for the teacher to ask the class to borrow somebody's knife if one was needed.

Nobody ever pulled a knife on anybody, to my knowledge during my school years. Somebody did pull one on my youngest son years after knives were prohibited, though. We all have already learned the lesson in that. But will the progressives ever see truth and reason? Of course not.

My father has told me, on more than one occasion, that a man is not dressed without his knife.

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Just how did the song Kumbayah, a religious spiritual recorded in the 1920's become the symbol of the loonball left? Kumbayah means Come by here. Come by here my Lord, come by here. The lefties are the most irreligious group around.

Swampman wrote:Just how did the song Kumbayah, a religious spiritual recorded in the 1920's become the symbol of the loonball left? Kumbayah means Come by here. Come by here my Lord, come by here. The lefties are the most irreligious group around.

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Perhaps because only the Good Lord could protect them from themselves and us from them?

I think it was part of the progression from Biblical religion toward the Mother Earth Eco religion when the song was taken up as a campfire standard.

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