Pantechnicon wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:59 pm
1. When were you in high school approximately, e.g. - early 60s? Late 80s?
2. In what part of the country did you attend high school?
3. Did you hunt before or after school, and what type of game specifically were you hunting?
4. If you left your pickup or guns unlocked, did you feel like this was in contravention to what you were taught about general firearms safety?
1. Mid Eighties
2. Northern California (North of Redding)
3. I didn't hunt, I have never been much of a hunter. However, I frequently went shooting after school with friends.
4. Locked? no one locked guns. I drove a VW Thing, there was no way to lock one of those. My M1 Carbine was normally under a blanked in the rear shelf and my Black Powder revolver was in the glove box, yes, loaded. My mother was concerned about he legality so she asked the sheriff's department. They told her that a parent needed to write a note that they knew about and allowed the guns. So she wrote the note and I put it in a plastic sleeve and kept it in the glove box.
My daughter, same school, mid/late 2000's
1. mid/late 2000's
2. Northern California (North of Redding)
3. She didn't hunt, but she did go shooting with friends after school, she was active in trail running, The final oddity, it was not uncommon for her to ride her horse to school. It was just a few miles and there was a old logging road that came out near the school and linked to some trails behind our house.
4. One day she returned to her locker with a form type note in her locker, on her pixtol (Her Pistol! It was MY Makarov!) saying that she was not to leave unsecured handguns in th locker. The not said that the next time it happened, the pistol would be taken to the police station and a parent would have to pick it up.
She, and a few other friends who got the note, asked the principal what to do, as the school would no longer secure student firearms in the office (a service they provided when I was a student, one of my friends had a nice shot gun so he turned it in to the office in the morning and picked it up after school, he did hunt upland birds).
The prinicipas first thing was "leave t in your car" unfortunately, these were all bus kids. Ultimatly, they were told that they were not to leave their back pack unsecured for any reason.
There was a scheduled inspection by some people from the state one day, ths principal made it very clear that there were to be no guns at school that day. The Deputity DA, who was in the SCA and sponsored the youth Civil War unit made it clear that if one of the Civil War kids was arrested, by the state people, that he would represent them.
So, a very pro-gun owners rights area.
"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matt. 25:40