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Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
I graduated from HS in 1980. When that insanity in Colorado happened, my wife and I were raising a young family of 3, with our oldest being 7. We definitely were not watching any news about it with them around, as, at the time anyway, we had no clue it would become sickeningly commonplace.
All during HS here in Texas, the student parking lot was full of pickups with full gun racks (shotguns and rifles - especially during deer season). The middle school across from Mom and Pop’s house even had a gun/shooting club.
Not one single incident over all those years, and well beyond…EVER.
Make of that what you will.
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Wow....everyone and their dog has a gun rack in their truck in Wyoming, but we had several incidents when I was in high school. A family was driving in their truck and either had to hit the brakes or maybe hit a bump, but the loaded gun in their window went off and I want to say it ricocheted and hit one of their kids like in a leg or something? The memory is vague, but I remember the kid being out of school for a bit. But really, who leaves a loaded gun in their vehicle while they are driving? Seems like an accident waiting to happen. In another incident, a very troubled teen got a gun somewhere and climbed up on top of the school during the homecoming dance and was shooting out windows of vehicles in the parking lot. No one was injured. And then when I was a senior, there was a friend of mine who was dating this guy who was really not a catch. I'm not sure what happened, but he ended up in jail for shooting at someone after an altercation...he was driving by in his truck and shot out the window. Fortunately he missed, so I don't think anyone was injured in that one, either, and they were actually no longer high school students, though they weren't a whole lot older, but I'm not sure that guy ever even graduated. He was an absolute moron and creeptastic. He kept making inuendos to me, right in front of his girlfriend, he waited in his truck outside the local bar and followed the female bartenders to their vehicles....they had to start getting someone to walk them to their vehicles so he wouldn't harass them. It's amazing he didn't end up in jail LONG before he did. My friend actually married him for some reason, and I sang at their wedding. There was a tense moment when taking their vows when he took ages and an elbow to the rib before he finally said "I do".

And also my senior year, I remember being called by the school one morning and told not to leave my house until we got the all-clear from police and we were advised to stay away from windows. Someone in our neighborhood had a gun and was threatening to shoot himself, and they were worried about stray bullets if he started shooting. They had police at the scene trying to talk to him, but it was a tense situation, so they got the school to call all the kids who lived in the area and we couldn't go to school for the first hour or something.
And about a decade ago I think, I heard about a 15 year old kid who I felt so sorry for, because his stepdad was choking his mom and he ended up shooting and killing the stepdad, and I thought that was pretty traumatic for that kid to have to remember for the rest of his life. In any case, several incidences, and that's in a town of fewer than 2000 people in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Songbird76 said:
Wow....everyone and their dog has a gun rack in their truck in Wyoming, but we had several incidents when I was in high school. A family was driving in their truck and either had to hit the brakes or maybe hit a bump, but the loaded gun in their window went off and I want to say it ricocheted and hit one of their kids like in a leg or something? The memory is vague, but I remember the kid being out of school for a bit. But really, who leaves a loaded gun in their vehicle while they are driving? Seems like an accident waiting to happen. In another incident, a very troubled teen got a gun somewhere and climbed up on top of the school during the homecoming dance and was shooting out windows of vehicles in the parking lot. No one was injured. And then when I was a senior, there was a friend of mine who was dating this guy who was really not a catch. I'm not sure what happened, but he ended up in jail for shooting at someone after an altercation...he was driving by in his truck and shot out the window. Fortunately he missed, so I don't think anyone was injured in that one, either, and they were actually no longer high school students, though they weren't a whole lot older, but I'm not sure that guy ever even graduated. He was an absolute moron and creeptastic. He kept making inuendos to me, right in front of his girlfriend, he waited in his truck outside the local bar and followed the female bartenders to their vehicles....they had to start getting someone to walk them to their vehicles so he wouldn't harass them. It's amazing he didn't end up in jail LONG before he did. My friend actually married him for some reason, and I sang at their wedding. There was a tense moment when taking their vows when he took ages and an elbow to the rib before he finally said "I do".

And also my senior year, I remember being called by the school one morning and told not to leave my house until we got the all-clear from police and we were advised to stay away from windows. Someone in our neighborhood had a gun and was threatening to shoot himself, and they were worried about stray bullets if he started shooting. They had police at the scene trying to talk to him, but it was a tense situation, so they got the school to call all the kids who lived in the area and we couldn't go to school for the first hour or something.
And about a decade ago I think, I heard about a 15 year old kid who I felt so sorry for, because his stepdad was choking his mom and he ended up shooting and killing the stepdad, and I thought that was pretty traumatic for that kid to have to remember for the rest of his life. In any case, several incidences, and that's in a town of fewer than 2000 people in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.
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Wow. Never heard of a loaded gun going off in a truck window rack here. Ever. Also, I don’t know what year you graduated from HS, but, I’m pretty sure it was well after I did.
What I posted was 100% true. Not one single gun incident over all those years.
However, a senior dude did ride his dirt bike through our student center naked with body paint on that said “Sansom Sucks” (our vice principal) on his back, and wasn’t allowed to walk for graduation in ‘79 (the year before I graduated)…!!!!! :hilarious:
And, I’ve posted about this before…
Two dudes in my sophomore PE class were not getting along, to the point where the coach (Coach Stewart - also my Drivers Ed teacher) had had enough. He stopped what we were doing and grabbed two sets of boxing gloves from his office. He marched us all way back on school property behind the baseball field and had them go at it until they were too tired to keep beating the crap outta’ each other.
Both drove pickups with full gun racks (ones last name was Tungate, and I can’t remember the other), and there was never an incident. Never.
Those two dudes even became friends afterwards.
I’m not sure what has happened in between, but, it sure as hell ain’t good.
I was around guns from a very early age. I was taught to never point a gun at anything you didn’t intend to kill. And killing another human being was never an option, unless it was in totally obvious self defense.
Fortunately, to this point anyway, I’ve never had that be the case.
I have theories on why everything has gone off the hinges since, but, my ol’ bad a$$ isn’t goin’ into that here.
 

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