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Originally Posted by Megatron96

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, and then leave without a shooting incident, not even an accidental one, like "gun fall off rack and somehow fires by itself."

To pretend kids are nearly as stable today is a joke. Even when you got in a fight win or lose everyone paid their own legal bills. I can't even remember cops being called unless you were outside a bar. I don't remember anyone suing anyone. Even when the cops showed up they would tell everyone to go home or they would arrest people. Nobody ever grabbed their gun, not once, ever. REALLY different these days.

Some other things I just thought of. Drive ins, always good for a first date. You could rent hotels as a teenager as long as you had a drivers license. When did that all change? Shlitz stout and Mickey Big Mouths.