Anybody else remember driving to high school with a gun in the back window rack and nobody looked twice at you

Question

I went to a small town school and during the fall/winter, everybody did a little road hunting on the way home. Wow, what would happen if you did that now! I guess now those are the good ol' days! Anybody got a story to share?

Hi everybody, thanks for the great stories! I'm from South Dakota where we know which side of the fence good neighbors fix and all you people who think you are fortunate enough to grow up somewhere else, you have no idea what our parents/superiors taught us. We grew up with guns, and learned to respect them, and good luck teaching your unfortunate kids about them. If you want to come to South Dakota, our inventory of ring-knecks, gray bellies or white-tail is unavailable at this time and we will let you know when we get the next shipment in.

Answer 1

You folks are showing your age.

Those of us with grey in our whiskers remember stuff like that fondly. I can still remember the day Coach Sullivan borrowed a shotgun from a student to kill a snake outside the backdoor of the cafeteria. And all the boys, and some of the girls had pocket knives. We'd whittle, do some illicit carving, and play chicken or mumblety-peg with the knives. Imagine the hissy fit a school administrator would have if he saw a couple of boys sticking knives in the ground between each other's feet.

You folks who don't remember this sort of stuff are either too young to remember when this country was still pretty free, or you grew up in the city.

Doc

Answer 2

I went to school in a city, but on weekends and the summers I'd spend time in the "country" with my grandad and cousins. Not only would we have a rifle or two in the back window of the Ford, but we left them there when we went in some roadhouse for dinner and didn't even lock the doors.

A friend of my family worked at the sheriff's office in the courthouse and we'd often go down there with a group of boys when we were bored in the summers and the sheriff would loan us rifles and pistols he kept there. I remember he loaned me an old .32-20 revolver that he said he took from a man he had shot years earlier that had robbed a bank during the depression.

How many places today can a 13 year old walk into the courthouse and jail and borrow a revolver?

Answer 3

It is a truly sad testimony to the sorry state that our once great and free country has digressed into, isn't it?
Years ago, in my senior year, I actually carried one of my sainted father's S&W .38's to school as a blank gun for 'special effects' when the school orchestra played the "1812 Overture" for the finale of the Spring concert. Granted, it was locked up in the Music Instructor's office for the two days practice preceding the performance, and my Dad had to drive me to school and back, as I couldn't ride the bus. The 'cannon fire' was, to say the least, a 'rousing' addition to the finale!
Even without the prevalent 'Zero Tolerance' Zones laws, just try & IMAGINE the reaction even the suggestion of using such 'sound effects' would create today!
In this day where students are arrested for merely having pocket knives in their cars, (this happened TWICE in Cobb County, GA recently, once at the very high school where the concert above took place in 1970) in this 'Zero Tolerance' atmosphere, a gun rack ALONE is grounds for undue authority attention, sad to say!

Answer 4

sure i remember them good ole days!!!!
i grew up in a very small town,
we did not have a stop light until after i graduated in 1986.
we only have a total of two lights in the whole town today.
i no longer live there.
but i sure do miss it.
i long for the days back when you could actually take a "ride
around the mountain" and have a good time!
we had a lake that we use to go to very often, a rock we would jump off of instead of going to the YMCA or the local
swimming pool.

we could sit out on our front porches until one, two am, never
worry that someone would harm us, let alone, see us, for my
parents house was so far off the road, no one knew it was there.

yes, i remember what i thought i would never refer to as "the
good ole days"

i could go on and on about the advantages of living in a small
town, but unless u been there, u just would not understand!

!

Answer 5

I actually went to high school in El Paso, TX and we didn't have a rifle in the window in the back of the truck, but we did usually have knives, shot gun under the seat and my best friend had an Uzi 9 mm in the trunk. That was usually because we went out shooting after school. And we were all Gung Ho Marine Corps crazy.

Answer 6

When I was in high school, it was nothing to go out to the parking lot and see guns in alot of windows, during hunting season. I think about half the people in my school hunted deer, and they would go hunt, then come to school. I went to a small school, and graduated in 1990. It's much different down there, now. They even have a security guard at the school, now.

Answer 7

Ah, but those were the days when we were taught what was right and wrong. We positively KNEW the consequences of any misbehavior would be swift, sure and painful punishment both at school and again at home.

Answer 8

Yep, and a hunting or bowie knife on your belt! I remember those days. All the guys had one, sometimes they took them out in the parking lot and compared them with there friends. Innocent good old boys. Say your not from Southeast Arkansas are you? Cause your old school town sounds like mine.

Answer 9

yep,i was one of those that did have the rifle an shotgun in the window,then again when u got less than 2000 people in ur town nobody says a d--n thing

Answer 10

lol am still in high school too I will be starting my junior year this fall but my freshman year by far was the best 10 th grade was hard and the teachers are more mean and evil