Paradise Lost

[Grouse]

It may be hard to believe, but America was once a place in which kids were given knives and guns as a reward for behaving themselves.

[New York Hillbilly]

And, so called “adults” are to blame for what this country and the children have become.  

[airedale]

Can one even carry a pocket knife legally these days? When I was a kid almost every guy would have a pocket knife on them or a Buck in it's holster on their belt, they were and are a useful tool, but probably not so much for the kids the of today.

Al

Edited October 15, 2023 by airedale

[Doc]

Of course we are talking years ago (63 years to be exact), but I used to run a trapline in the morning before school, and I had no problem wearing my hunting knife and my hatchet on my belt inside the school, and nobody ever said anything about it. Nobody even gave it a second thought about any danger. Also, I took my hunter safety course in the bus garage with  guns there on school property. Things sure have changed.

[suburbanfarmer]

Not so many yrs ago I walked into walmart after getting my first deer, dressed in orange and blood stained to pick up a disposable camera
No one even turned around for a second look. The cashier asked what I had gotten

I bet $20 no one would dare to repeat that today