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First Grader Takes Loaded Gun to School...

Task Force 16

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How come the father gets arrested when he doesn't even live under the same roof with the 2 boys and their mother? And the older son? Can felons now be arrested and charged simply by having knowledge that some else, with kids,has guns in their home? Did the mother not have knowledge of the gun?
 

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Someone please explain to me the connection between the father and the older brother and how it is THEIR fault and not the mothers? Did I miss something here?
 

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opusd2 wrote:
Someone please explain to me the connection between the father and the older brother and how it is THEIR fault and not the mothers? Did I miss something here?


Don't let it wrap you around a post too much. Its just the media abandoning once again their social obligation to provide full information.

Correction, ...continuing their long abandonment of...

Here's a very pro-gun guy I enjoy reading who has a special knack for highlighting the media's failings: http://pagenine.typepad.com/

He and his wife run Bloomfield Press. Very pro-liberty. Very pro-gun. Lots of good books available. Page Nine is his blog. Ohhh, is he good.
 

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Citizen wrote:
opusd2 wrote:
Someone please explain to me the connection between the father and the older brother and how it is THEIR fault and not the mothers? Did I miss something here?

Don't let it wrap you around a post too much. Its just the media abandoning once again their social obligation to provide full information.

Correction, ...continuing their long abandonment of...
Correction, ...continuing their long tradition of...:cuss:
 

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Oh I don't lose sleep over the bias of the media. Sometimes I like to show a little anger and make it known I don't buy into their crap, but it melts away and I deal with my life and how I want to live it. No news is going to change that.
 

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In 1st grade I got in trouble for a empty AK mag i took to school for show and tell. And in 2nd for a finger nail clipper. But at the same school in 9th I was allowed to take rifles and pistols to school as long as they where in the locked cabinet tell history class and empty.

I would leave them in the case on the bus and in the first row of seats by the driver or be driven to school and hand them to the History teacher. He checked them then locked them up. I know that stoped 2yrs after that. Catholic schools.
 

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I went to a Catholic grade school until the end of 8th grade, and they were more lenient than the public high school I went after that. I can remember bringing hunting rifles and shotguns so that we could go hunting at our friends' houses after school. Bear in mind this was the late 70's early 80's.
 

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Anyone ever on the school rifle team? Yes schools at one time sponsored rifle teams, and competed against each other. The entire team would show up at school with rifles and leave from there to go to the range for practice. In those days no one thought must about it. But then students did not shoot each other in those days.



Regards
 

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My school had one. But I was never on it. In retrospect, I should have been. But at that age I was more interesting in shooting cans than competition. :lol:
 

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I was on the bowhunting team. At that age in my life I was big into bowhunting and carried it everywhere I went, behind the seat of my truck. And the funny thing is we never had any "Robin Hood" type conflicts where we went berserk and shot at each other. I guess that's the closest I can come to a "Wild West" analogy...
 

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Hawkflyer wrote:
Anyone ever on the school rifle team? Yes schools at one time sponsored rifle teams, and competed against each other. The entire team would show up at school with rifles and leave from there to go to the range for practice. In those days no one thought must about it. But then students did not shoot each other in those days.

Regards
Oh yes. Public high school had a JROTC program and a rifle/pistol range in the second level basement of the school! In fact all eight (8) of the local high schools had teams and ranges - many of the ranges were on the school property - all were indoors.

I sometimes transported my uncased rifle home on the bus. We drilled with M1s on the lawn or within the school proper.

Don't ask how long ago this was :? but there was a "police action" going on around the other side of the world.

Yata hey
 

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Grapeshot wrote:
...SNIP

Oh yes. Public high school had a JROTC program and a rifle/pistol range in the second level basement of the school! In fact all eight (8) of the local high schools had teams and ranges - many of the ranges were on the school property - all were indoors.

I sometimes transported my uncased rifle home on the bus. We drilled with M1s on the lawn or within the school proper.

Don't ask how long ago this was :? but there was a "police action" going on around the other side of the world.

Yata hey
Depending on WHICH "police action" we are probably of the same generation.:lol:

But the M1 is kind of a clue that your police action might be a decade before earlier than the one I am thinking of.
Regards
 

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Hawkflyer wrote:
Grapeshot wrote:
...SNIP

Oh yes. Public high school had a JROTC program and a rifle/pistol range in the second level basement of the school! In fact all eight (8) of the local high schools had teams and ranges - many of the ranges were on the school property - all were indoors.

I sometimes transported my uncased rifle home on the bus. We drilled with M1s on the lawn or within the school proper.

Don't ask how long ago this was :? but there was a "police action" going on around the other side of the world.

Yata hey
Depending on WHICH "police action" we are probably of the same generation.:lol:

But the M1 is kind of a clue that your police action might be a decade before earlier than the one I am thinking of.
Regards
Rhymes with pyorrhea and diarrhea and unless I am very mistaken, we are still there.

Yata hey
 

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Hawkflyer wrote:
Anyone ever on the school rifle team? Yes schools at one time sponsored rifle teams, and competed against each other. The entire team would show up at school with rifles and leave from there to go to the range for practice. In those days no one thought must about it. But then students did not shoot each other in those days.



Regards

Yes, I was on my High School rifle team as well as the JROTC program. The range was located near the gym in the bottom level and was not detached from the school itself. They also offered gym credit classes called Riflery that you could choose as an elective. Obviously, there were other local High Schools that also had ranges as well. It is my understanding that the range is still in use.

We went to a military range and fired weapons while in JROTC as well as the use of the range on site at the High School.
 

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Grapeshot wrote:
...SNIP
Depending on WHICH "police action" we are probably of the same generation.:lol:

But the M1 is kind of a clue that your police action might be a decade before earlier than the one I am thinking of.
Regards
Rhymes with pyorrhea and diarrhea and unless I am very mistaken, we are still there.

Yata hey
Yea, that is what I thought. I am in the next generation after yours.
 

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Being that I am half asleep I am not getting the full meaning of the letter. I promise to do so when my son deicedes to take a naps sometime dayl
 
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