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Things are so different now. When I was in high school, all of the following were common:

- Boys carrying pocket knives/hunting knives.

- Boys with firearms in their cars/trucks so they could go hunting after school.

- Access to a wide variety of chemicals in chemistry class.

- Access to a wide variety of electrical and electronic components in physics class.

- Access to a wide variety of power and machine tools in industrial arts/vocational classes.

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Tell me about it. The county sheriff came and taught skeet shooting to my 10th grade Health and Wellness class. The pigeon thrower was mounted on the back of the police cruiser and we shot 20-gauge shotguns on the practice football field. This was rural NC in the 90s.

And so we come to the realisation that the 'war on terror' is now in fact a civil war we wage against ourselves and our fears.

Every incident like this is another damning victory for those who sought to change our way of life. They may not have taken us back to the stone-age but they sure as hell took away a lot of the freedoms we had.

I regularly brought my pocket knife to elementary school. Nobody blinked an eye. It was dull because I used it for digging and prying more than for cutting, but nobody would have cared even if it was sharp.

Back in my day, I'd see friends with their glocks at school. Teachers didn't even bat an eye.

See Columbine and the influx of 'zero tolerance'. I was actually in school to see the before and after, unfortunately, the after has become less tolerant and more reactionary and so we have what you see here (and really just about every day in the school year in the US you'll find a similar story).

After the OK City bombing my school banned wearing camouflage. They were afraid of school shootings at some point so they banned coats that were "tool long" or "too bulky". A friend of mine got in trouble for wearing a leather jacket.

Maybe this kid WAS singled out because he had brown skin, but school administrators were overreacting to stupid shit decades ago, in ways that obviously weren't connected to "racism."

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