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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, 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."
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I know this is all from memory but breaking down your numbers:
Approximately 450 students:
40% of the parking lot was pickups. So, depending on size of individual classes of freshmen/Sophomores who didn’t drive (in my decade- your decade may have had more FR/SO drivers) then you probably had 100 student vehicles in the lot. And of those vehicles, about 40% of those drove trucks. So 40 trucks. 40:gun racks. 40 guns of some sort.
Percentage seems a touch high, but it’s Tulsa. So, that could be true. What was your high school decade?
EDIT: megatron’s decade was the 80’s.