I remember a boy bringing a .22 rifle for deposit in the principal's office in the late 1970s at my middle school. He was a member of the rifle team. Mid 1970s.
I used to wear a dangling jack knife from my Webelos belt when I was allowed to dress up in that uniform. Late 1970s.
My, how times have changed.
How does one spell H-Y-S-T-E-R-I-A?
Several years ago a young girl at a Manchester school reported a gun. The school, and a few others, went into lockdown for several hours. No teaching done. Next door a construction site featured the threat, as it turned out, of a nailgun.
I'm reminded when I was a child and there was a sociopath killing children in the Detroit area. The fear was palpable. Uncle Walt even reported it on the CBS News. So when a man stopped to ask directions to me and my friend on a cul-de-sac where we were playing, I was fearful enough and trained by the gubmit teachers to memorize his license plate number. Looking back I have a little guilt, but I reported it to the school officials. I occasionally wonder what kind of havoc I inserted into the man's life.
He didn't pose a threat to me, but the hysteria had taken root.
More recently a man acting apparently erratically--Oh, that never happens at university, does it?--and having a weapon-like instrument sticking out of his pocket caused the Plymouth StateCollege, er, University, and neighboring Holderness Prep to go into lockdown.
If I were a criminal mastermind, I'd be tempted to use a situation like this a diversionary tactic, as police forces from surrounding areas rushed like madmen and -women to investigate, leaving other areas utterly denuded of cops. Can people absorb the following good news: NH doesn't require a license to open carry. I understand the state universities prohibit students there from even having pepper spray, but there's no state law prohibiting someone carrying openly.
Hey, were queer and we're here. It's time for a little civil rights non-violence protest for the right to keep and bear arms. What would PSU do then? Keep the Free Staters at bay!
Good lord. More moderation and less cowardice, please.
I used to wear a dangling jack knife from my Webelos belt when I was allowed to dress up in that uniform. Late 1970s.
My, how times have changed.
How does one spell H-Y-S-T-E-R-I-A?
Several years ago a young girl at a Manchester school reported a gun. The school, and a few others, went into lockdown for several hours. No teaching done. Next door a construction site featured the threat, as it turned out, of a nailgun.
I'm reminded when I was a child and there was a sociopath killing children in the Detroit area. The fear was palpable. Uncle Walt even reported it on the CBS News. So when a man stopped to ask directions to me and my friend on a cul-de-sac where we were playing, I was fearful enough and trained by the gubmit teachers to memorize his license plate number. Looking back I have a little guilt, but I reported it to the school officials. I occasionally wonder what kind of havoc I inserted into the man's life.
He didn't pose a threat to me, but the hysteria had taken root.
More recently a man acting apparently erratically--Oh, that never happens at university, does it?--and having a weapon-like instrument sticking out of his pocket caused the Plymouth State
If I were a criminal mastermind, I'd be tempted to use a situation like this a diversionary tactic, as police forces from surrounding areas rushed like madmen and -women to investigate, leaving other areas utterly denuded of cops. Can people absorb the following good news: NH doesn't require a license to open carry. I understand the state universities prohibit students there from even having pepper spray, but there's no state law prohibiting someone carrying openly.
Hey, were queer and we're here. It's time for a little civil rights non-violence protest for the right to keep and bear arms. What would PSU do then? Keep the Free Staters at bay!
Good lord. More moderation and less cowardice, please.
I can remember more than one morning during deer season where my classmates pulled into the parking lot at my high school with their shotguns/rifles in the rifle racks on their pick up trucks or in the trunks of their cars. No one thought anything of it.
I used to have a buck knife on my belt. Again, no big deal.
But in these days of zero-tolerance policies a pen with the word "Glock" silk-screened on it is enough to get a student suspended from school for days or weeks.
This. Is. Stupid.