(09-06-2024, 12:55 PM)copycat Wrote: When I was growing up every truck had a gun rack and every gun rack held a gun, that includes the HS parking lot.  Most everyone had a pocket knife and quite a few had one strapped to their belts.  It’s the culture not the weapons.

I was in high school more than 20 years ago and a lot of us had pocket knives even though we weren't supposed to.  If you got caught it was a suspension.  Men almost always carried them around in those days, and their sons imitated them. There were fights but I never heard of anyone taking out their knife during a fight.  

All that said, I'd prefer my kids go to a school where the kids have access to fewer weapons, rather than more.

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