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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How times change.

When I was in my (wealthy international) high school, one of the boys is my grade brought a gun to school, with a separate bullet, in his backpack, and showed it off in study hall when the proctor wasn't there (proctors were hardly ever there).

Most of us scolded him like a little boy, and told him to put it away. Some boys passed the gun around, but it ended there. None of us, in those benighted times, thought to tell any adult. It didn't feel like a crisis situation.
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I can’t tell if you’re scolding people for not wanting guns in schools or not. I am confused about the point of your anecdote [/quote]

Really? Today's society is a lot more watchful about firearms, given mass school shooting events, than in days of yore, when we were blissfully unaware. My point was just how times have changed since I went to school. And I'm not THAT old. I'm 41 :-)
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Here’s another anecdote.  I’m a 39 year old who grew up in a wealthy US suburb.  I never saw a gun at school, don’t remember lock down drills, never had metal detectors, school was an open sprawling campus with many buildings and we could go off campus during free periods.  If I had seen a gun at school I would have alerted administration because I knew, even in my idyllic privileged youth, that a gun is a violent weapon that kills people.  [/quote]

This could be a fun anecdotal spin-off about all our high school experiences and exposure to guns. I'll go.

I'm 51 who also grew up in a wealthy, midwestern US suburb. I never saw a gun never had to deal with metal detectors, lock down drills, etc. However, we also had a smoking lounge in the front of the school, fights in the halls all the time (..."it's a boy thing" or "rite of passage..." nothing out of the ordinary), friends being sexually assaulted and not saying a word cause also, yeah maybe that was a rite of passage or worse, that they deserved it. Has I seen a gun in school it is extraordinarily unlikely I wouldn't have said anything, to anyone cause a lot of shady stuff goes on in high school.[/quote]

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