# Growing up, did your school allow guns?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 29, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487 "2016-02-29T10:54:08Z")
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### Author: ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/4 "2016-02-29T12:20:38Z")

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Guns were OK, but had to be left in your car.

I posted about this in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=755301) thread. Quoted below:

> [@Innocent things you did as a child without repercussions, that would get you suspended today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-things-you-did-as-a-child-without-repercussions-that-would-get-you-suspended-today/718469/26):
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> In the early 70’s (in the South), I mentioned to my science teacher that I was going frog-gigging after school. I also told him I occasionally would shoot at the frogs too, and I had my .22 rifle in the car. His reaction was to ask the class whether I should aim above or below the frog as I saw it in the water. No reaction to the gun in the car, or touchy-feely bullshit about feelings and animals, just a science lesson on light and refraction. I had to give a report the next day on the results of shooting above or below the image.

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