It's almost like there was a largely homogenous group of people that shared values, a mother and grandmother instead of a nanny or daycare, had no destructive social media designed entirely to encourage interaction through negative feedback, and they weren't put on mind altering drugs as children as soon as they could talk.

And no one broke into your fucking truck and stole them

I remember reading about the University of Texas Tower shooting and one of the professors just happened to have a rifle laying around in his classroom that he used to keep the shooter pinned down.

FYI, if you read the first couple of pages of search results you will find the "modern" "revised" determination that the civilians that kept the shooter pinned down AKTUALLY didn't help.

I remember when people actually used to have to do pullups and climb a rope during physical education

My kids don’t believe I took a shotgun to school and left it in the trunk for bird hunting in the afternoon.

If they freak out over this then they definately don't want to know what's in the glove compartment.... or under the dash..... or under the seat...

I had a 12 gauge and a 270 in my truck parked right in the school parking lot.

Was just taking with coworkers about this this morning. And no one was ever shot.

We have to ask what changed in society when, many years ago, kids could bring guns to school for show and tell, yet there was never any school shootings.

Was it that parents raised their children properly back then? Was it that there was no harmful psychoactive drugs that kids were on back then? Was it that there were no violent video games? Was it that there was no bullying in schools? What was it?

I think it all comes down to the parents. Always, the parents. Today's parents are failures. If you need to put your kid on drugs to cope with life, you failed as a parent. I think violent video games are OK, as long as the parent teaches kids that video games are fantasy and not reality. Again - failure of the parents. If your kid is getting bullied in school, you probably failed as a parent. But even back then, kids were bullied too. So it's a matter of the parents failing to teach their kids appropriate response to bullying.

Gun control is a band-aid to the problem. Guns don't kill people, people with horrible parents kill people.

Not only that, your truck was safe and didn't get broken into and the rifles stolen. I remember that!

This is what Houston looked like in the 90s.

But those arent scary black fully semi automatic assault rifles with 30 clip magazines per clip.

good times.

Make Gun Racks Great Again

This is still pretty normal in IA.

We were only allowed to have them in our trucks during hunting season

sometimes, we'd go hunting before school started. Crazy, I know.

we were just a bunch of deplorable red necks clinging to our Bibles and guns

I remember a kid back in 2000 getting in trouble because he had a skinning knife in his vehicle and some do gooder taddled on him. The cops didn't charge him, just gave the knife to the parents but it split the community. I grew up in a town of 10,000 people. No crime. We've suddenly afraid of a buck knife? I grew up in the town that Kevin Sorbo did.

It's got to be even worse now. I work in an office an I carry a foldable knife all of the time. Why? Because there's always some stupid box to open. The left has gone way off the deep end with their looking for bad guys under every object. They are obsessed with finding bad guys.

I can't live with them anymore. I'm moving to Wyoming. I was considered far right when I lived in Texas. And the horrible shit they have called me in Minnesota is unbearable. I don't want to live in a nanny state anymore.

Why’d your generation let it change?

Now this will get your window broken and your guns stolen by joggers.

Because today, if you drove that to a typical public HS, the truck would be broken into and the rifle and gun gone sold into the city by the end of first period.

Yup, most cars in my HS parking lot had guns in them. I remember when a friend got a new pistol, he was showing it to us, including one of the teachers. Across the street was a vacant hillside, we went over there and shot it at lunch hour. The teacher was with us, he didn't shoot the gun but he was there probably making sure we were safe as much as anything else.

my 30-30 is my best pig gun. Swamp pig, not the portland type.

I went to high school in the 90s and I remember this. Also the fat tires on the back wheels and skinny tires up front.

TBQPH that was really fucking stupid even back then. Lots of those guns got stolen and ended up being used in crimes.

Even nowadays on gun boards I keep reading posts from idiots who talk about their cars getting burglarized and their "car gun" getting stolen. Dumbasses, keep it in a holster on your person and it won't get stolen.