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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish
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?
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Probably closer to 130 student cars, i think. But yeah, probably around 40 pickups in the student lots? Another dozen or so in the teachers' lot? That's just a pure guess though. Only cars I really remember the teachers driving was Mr. Kreickhaus' microbus and Ms. Allen's 1959 or whatever Volkswagen bug, because it was all painted up with flowers (giant daisy right in the middle of the hood) and a pink peace symbol on the roof.
Graduated in 1986.
But not every single truck had a gun rack in it. A lot did. But not every single one. Some kids didn't own their own guns. Knew plenty of kids that came from poorer homes, and their guns were really their dad's/uncle's guns, so they weren't allowed to just drive around with them. Or they had parents that just didn't want their kids driving around with them in the back window. If I had to close my eyes and guess, we're talking somewhere between a couple dozen to 30 gun racks.
But a lot of kids were farmer/rancher kids back then, which might be why so many gun racks. My best friend as a Frosh/soph was a fourth gen rancher kid; learned to drive my first vehicle on his ranch. Crappy Ram something, with no windows at all, only had 2nd gear, no reverse, and didn't turn left for some reason i don't remember anymore.
i drove my dad's pos 1977(1976?) Ford Country Squire for a year, complete with the rad wood trim/paneling all around and the flip-up headlights doors (like little garage doors) then bought a used Camaro (bitchin' Camaro), so never had the pleasure of owning a gun rack, and also why i have no idea how they ended up in all those trucks.