# :sigh: More students not reporting classmate's threats.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-more-students-not-reporting-classmates-threats/252179
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 25, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-more-students-not-reporting-classmates-threats/252179 "2004-06-25T14:20:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-more-students-not-reporting-classmates-threats/252179/21 "2004-06-25T18:53:30Z")
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> When I was as young as eight years old, my dad taught me how to shoot, how to handle a weapon properly, gun safety, etc.
Interestingly, there was a time when this was actually taught in the schools. Not in the course of a normal classroom activity so much, as it was an extracurricular activity. It wasn’t really that long ago either. I graduated high school in 1980, and we had a small bore rifle team that competed all around the state of Ohio. It wasn’t a very popular thing, not even as much as the debating team, or the chess club, but it was there for anyone interested.
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### Author:  [@P\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P_T)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-more-students-not-reporting-classmates-threats/252179/22 "2004-06-25T18:56:08Z")
[QUOTE=UncleBeer]
Interestingly, there was a time when this was actually taught in the schools. Not in the course of a normal classroom activity so much, as it was an extracurricular activity.
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In Iowa Falls, Iowa, it was part of P.E. We went to the local Reserve Armory and had to shoot a .22.
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### Author:  [@P\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P_T)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-more-students-not-reporting-classmates-threats/252179/23 "2004-06-25T18:57:15Z")
Crap, screwed that one up pretty good. That was in 1988 that I graduated, by the way.
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### Author:  [@Ninja\_Pizza\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ninja_Pizza_Guy)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigh-more-students-not-reporting-classmates-threats/252179/24 "2004-06-25T19:57:16Z")
> [@Steelerphan](#):
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> You don’t live in rural Pennsylvania, do you?
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> Gun collections are fairly common; as are collectors. Are you saying that they aren’t “normal?” What do you mean by “normal?”
I suspect they mean what everyone means when they say “normal”: “like me.”
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