[at-l] weight/use efficiency & Guns

[winchester@unnet.com (Ron Winchester)]

Kahley,

My experience was much the same.  By the time we got into high school, we had
to check our guns at the office -- imagine that!  The beginning of the end.
Now if a kid gets caught with a pen knife he/she will get expelled.  Same
school -- different times and attitudes.  Funny though, we've had more murders
here the past fifteen years, than all the time I was growing up, and in none
of the recent murders was a gun used.

Ron

kahley wrote:

> At 06:08 PM 1/29/02 -0600, Shane Steinkamp wrote:
>
> snip
> >  It was common to see my neighbors with guns
> >in their trucks and common to carry a firearm when going
> >into the woods.  There were, as far as I could tell, three
> >reasons for this:  Just because, to dispatch poisonous
> >snakes, and because you might see something you want to
> >shoot and eat.
>
> You know, I'd like to see a demographic breakdown of attitudes
> re guns and rural urban/people.  Believe it or not, we had a closet
> in our sixth grade classroom, for guns. Well actually it held supplies
> but that's where the boys put their guns. Yep.  sixth grade kids
> were allowed to bring guns to school during hunting season so
> they could go hunting right after school.  We lived on the edge of town
> and would often see people walking down the street with a slung gun.
>
> I grew up, knowing that there was a shotgun and shells in our closet
> and to keep my hands off it, just as I knew that the keys to the car
> were above the visor.  The gun was a tool that I was not allowed to
> use, just as I wasn't allowed to use my dad's good screwdrivers.
>
> That was my semi rural experience.  In the cities, people have a different
> attitude because their experiences are of people killing people with guns.
> Same tool, but a different application because of what?  Location?
>
> Maybe we should ban cities.
>
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