You wouldn’t think it after last weekend’s “March for Our Lives,” but it wasn’t that long ago that thousands of high schoolers were walking around with guns. From the New York Post article, “When toting guns in high school was cool”:
“Even in New York City, virtually every public high school had a shooting club up until 1969,” gun-rights advocate and academic John Lott Jr. wrote in his 2003 book, “The Bias Against Guns.”
“It was common for high school students to take their guns with them to school on the subways in the morning and turn them over to their home-room teacher or the gym coach so the heavy guns would simply be out of the way. After school, students would pick up their guns when it was time for practice.” . . .
The rest of the article is recommended and it is available here.
(Picture is also from the New York Post)
Yep – hunting in the early morning in Iowa in the ‘60s, one either left guns in the trunk of your car if you drove in or the 2ndVPs office. Strict gun control demanded you leave it there by 730am and pick it up by 230pm – go guns on the school bus!
Yes I brought my shotgun to school every day of small game season, Sept to middle March on school bus behind the bus driver and in school in my locker till I had to share a locker with another student then in the principals office. I walked home thru the fields and woods 6 miles home after school. I was also on the school rifle team most schools had a range in the school basement. I graduated in 1964
The above post was in the middle of N. Y. state in the finger lake region
The above post was in the middle of N. Y. state in the finger lake region