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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish
I know we have discussed this before, but what size school and city do you live if you and (everybody) drove to school with .22’s in the window rack?
I went to a school of 450/500. In a city of 100k.
Very, very few folks had their hunting stuff in a car/truck. Car stereo theft alone in the 70’s was out of control. If somebody’s gun got stolen out of a truck (locked or unlocked) there was a Dad who was going to kick his son’s ass.
Everybody I knew practiced incredible caution with their firearm.
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HS school pop when I was in HS was about 450 I think? Tulsa was around 200k, iirc, so big enough.
HS student parking lot was probably around 40% pickups? More than half had the obligatory shotgun/rifle rack in the back window. At the time, I probably thought that those racks were a factory option I saw so many of them. Probably the same at every HS in town. Not one school shooting, not one incident of a kid threatening to go get his gun out of his truck, etc.
On any given summer weekend in Tulsa back in the '80s HS kids from the surrounding towns, as far away as Parsons KS, would show up in town in their pickups complete with shotgun/rifle racks. Hundreds, if not thousands, of trucks with guns would flood into town, filled with HS/college-age kids, and then leave without a shooting incident, not even an accidental one, like "gun fall off rack and somehow fires by itself."