jim wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:

* Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than
are murdered by guns. That's right. Despite what media coverage might
seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school
football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many
football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45),
as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during
that same time period.


So what exactly is the point of presenting such statistics? I suspect if
you made football in high school illegal and made guns in high school
legal, the number of deaths due to guns would be far greater than the
number of deaths due to football. But what would that prove?

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

--

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http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~sv_temptress

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
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Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

Or when? Did they have to leave their percussion caps with the teacher? g

--
Ed Huntress

Ed Huntress wrote:

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
...
Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

Or when? Did they have to leave their percussion caps with the teacher? g

--
Ed Huntress

Schools used to have shooting teams and it was common to have your rifle
in your locker. This was before my time, but it most certainly existed.

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"CaveLamb" wrote in message
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Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

Or when? Did they have to leave their percussion caps with the teacher?
g

--
Ed Huntress

The Robinson Rifle team competes in the Potomac High School Rifle League, an
association of high school rifle teams in the Washington Metro area. The
team is open to all high school students. Team members may elect to shoot
smallbore (.22 cal), or precision air rifle, or both.

Rifle is a Winter Sport at Robinson, with the season running from November
to the end of March. Training for each season begins in September, but
competitive opportunities are available for individual rifle team members
year-round.


http://www.robinsonrifle.org/

Best Regards
Tom.

We could toat them to/from shool. Right to the
range lock box.

Martin

On 5/30/2011 9:53 PM, Pete C. wrote:

Ed Huntress wrote:

wrote in message
...
Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

Or when? Did they have to leave their percussion caps with the teacher?g

--
Ed Huntress

Schools used to have shooting teams and it was common to have your rifle
in your locker. This was before my time, but it most certainly existed.

"Pete C." wrote in message
ster.com...

Ed Huntress wrote:

"CaveLamb" wrote in message
...
Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no
high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

Or when? Did they have to leave their percussion caps with the teacher?
g

--
Ed Huntress

Schools used to have shooting teams and it was common to have your rifle
in your locker. This was before my time, but it most certainly existed.

It wasn't before my time. When I lived near Bloomsburg, PA, the first day of
deer season was a school holiday. During the season we brought our rifles to
school and stored them in lockers in the athletic director's office. We had
to hand him our ammunition (carrying more than a half-dozen cartridges was
frowned upon), and he put them in a manila envelope with our name on it, and
put those in a locked drawer in his desk.

At the end of the school day we picked up our rifles and ammo, walked off of
school property, loaded our guns, and walked home through a stretch of woods
and peat bogs. Sometimes we even saw a deer. g

That's the only thing like that I've ever heard of. I lived in a pretty
rugged part of western MD, too, and never heard of kids being allowed to
"have guns in school," except for the rifle team, who had their own lockers
for the purpose, and the practice at that school I'm talking about, related
to hunting season. It wasn't "guns in school."

(FWIW, that was Central Columbia County High School, in 1961-1963). Again,
maybe in the percussion-cap era. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress

"azotic" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"CaveLamb" wrote in message
...
Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

Or when? Did they have to leave their percussion caps with the teacher?
g

--
Ed Huntress

The Robinson Rifle team competes in the Potomac High School Rifle League,
an association of high school rifle teams in the Washington Metro area.
The team is open to all high school students. Team members may elect to
shoot smallbore (.22 cal), or precision air rifle, or both.

Rifle is a Winter Sport at Robinson, with the season running from November
to the end of March. Training for each season begins in September, but
competitive opportunities are available for individual rifle team members
year-round.


http://www.robinsonrifle.org/

Best Regards
Tom.

That isn't "guns in school," Tom. I carried a Savage Model 99, .300 Savage,
to school and kept it in a locker. There were no opportunities for
gunfights -- until we were off of school property.

--
Ed Huntress

On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:24:42 -0500, CaveLamb
wrote:

Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high schools.
You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.


So I'm wondering where you went to school?

I used to bring a Marlin 3030 to class in my Michigan highscool in the
late 60s, as I deer hunted before and after school. Same with bows and
broadheads during archery seasons. Kept em in my locked locker during
classes.
Half the guys and a surprising number of girls did the same thing.


Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno

CaveLamb wrote:
Pete C. wrote:

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.

To the very best of my knowledge, guns we NEVER LEGAL in Texas high
schools. You'd get expelled for a knife after 1960.

So I'm wondering where you went to school?

I was in school in Minnesota in the 1960s. We did a play, a reinterpretation
of Shakespears's "Julius Caesar" set in the early 20th century. There was a
big battle scene, and they had flashpots (a thimbleful of black powder with
a nichrome wire to set it off) and several real guns, shooting blanks, of
course. One guy had a 12Ga that he shot into a 55 gal. drum (makes a way
kewl "BOOM!"), and when I was watching from the wings. some guy shot a
hunting rifle towards the stage, aiming about 6' from where the "victim"
was standing - he fell off the platform onto a pile of mattresses, and I
saw the wadding stop from air resistance about 6 or 8 feet from the barrel
of the gun.

But this was in Minnesota, which used to have sane people in charge.

Thanks,
Rich

"Pete C." wrote:

jim wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:

* Twice as many children are killed playing football in school than
are murdered by guns. That's right. Despite what media coverage might
seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school
football than guns. In a recent three year period, twice as many
football players died from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. (45),
as compared with students who were murdered by firearms (22) during
that same time period.


So what exactly is the point of presenting such statistics? I suspect if
you made football in high school illegal and made guns in high school
legal, the number of deaths due to guns would be far greater than the
number of deaths due to football. But what would that prove?

Guns in high school used to be legal and guess what, there were no high
school gunfights.


My mother's high school had a rifle club in the late '40s. It was
near Akron Ohio.


--
It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.