Even if on video, with the union rules and laws providing immense leeway for the police, they usually don’t even go to trial for cold-blood murder.
ASIG
June 25, 2016 11:25 pm
I graduated even a decade earlier than that. Yeah it’s a different world now.
I knew a couple of guys that routinely carried a gun in their truck, no one thought much about it. No one considered it anything to get excited about. It would be about the level of concern you would have if someone today told you that they keep a tool box (with hammers even) in their truck. Yeah, OK so what?
lysander
June 26, 2016 8:10 am
In 1971 I used to ride my bike down to the hardware store on main street and buy .22’s for a day of plinking. With my .22 rifle bungee corded to the handlebars I would pedal through town, past the town hall, the police station and the post office to get to my Grandma’s farm out in the country. Along the way I might stop for a soda pop at the drugstore, leaving the bike with the rifle on it outside.
Those days seem like a dream now. Like I say; the past is a foreign country.
harry p.
June 26, 2016 8:54 am
One question:
How many imported 3rd worlders lived in this town…?
bb
June 26, 2016 9:40 am
In the early 70s I would walk through my neighborhood with my 12 gauge pump shotgun on my way to the woods to do some hunting.No one ever said anything or called the police. Now if a kid did that he would probably be arrested or shot.
In high school we shot guns on school property all 4 years . The school sponsored gun safety classes for all students. The year after I graduated they shut down the whole gun program because someone from out of town threatened a lawsuit.
lysander
June 26, 2016 1:08 pm
@ harry p……….To answer your query, none, not a one. The .gov tried to settle Vietnamese boat people in town but it didn’t work out too well. They wanted to work and there was little work for them. They settled up the road apiece in a medium sized city and worked in the factories there. This occurred back in the days when there was still a little sanity left in Connecticut.
The Comrade-Governor of the People’s Socialist State of Connecticut is today bringing in as many muzzies from Bosnia and Syria as he knows how. They are a nightmare, as one would expect. At least some of the Bosnians work, but the Syrians are going to the three main ghetto cities; Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. Mosques are springing up all over.
Gator
June 26, 2016 11:18 pm
My grandfather was a high school gym teacher and track coach for much of his life. He said they used to have fights back then just like they do now. He said if they insisted on fighting, he would give them a couple pairs of boxes gloves and let them go at it until one either tapped out and quit or, usually, one got a nice bloody nose. He said they often had knives on their belts, and there were always rifles on gun racks in the (unlocked) pickups of teachers and students alike. Not one time did it occur to them to stab each other with the pocket knives most of them carried in their pockets or go get their rifles or shotguns out of their trucks. Just didn’t happen. He also said more often than not after they had their fight and hurt each other a little, they’d be good friends after that. This was in rural Georgia and northern florida.
Great memories of a much greater time.
Today, If that happened. Those two boys would be filled full of more holes than a 50 lb round of Swiss cheese.
Police mantra, Shoot first and ask questions later. Don’t worry if you make a mistake it won’t be held against you unless it’s on video tape.
Even if on video, with the union rules and laws providing immense leeway for the police, they usually don’t even go to trial for cold-blood murder.
I graduated even a decade earlier than that. Yeah it’s a different world now.
I knew a couple of guys that routinely carried a gun in their truck, no one thought much about it. No one considered it anything to get excited about. It would be about the level of concern you would have if someone today told you that they keep a tool box (with hammers even) in their truck. Yeah, OK so what?
In 1971 I used to ride my bike down to the hardware store on main street and buy .22’s for a day of plinking. With my .22 rifle bungee corded to the handlebars I would pedal through town, past the town hall, the police station and the post office to get to my Grandma’s farm out in the country. Along the way I might stop for a soda pop at the drugstore, leaving the bike with the rifle on it outside.
Those days seem like a dream now. Like I say; the past is a foreign country.
One question:
How many imported 3rd worlders lived in this town…?
In the early 70s I would walk through my neighborhood with my 12 gauge pump shotgun on my way to the woods to do some hunting.No one ever said anything or called the police. Now if a kid did that he would probably be arrested or shot.
In high school we shot guns on school property all 4 years . The school sponsored gun safety classes for all students. The year after I graduated they shut down the whole gun program because someone from out of town threatened a lawsuit.
@ harry p……….To answer your query, none, not a one. The .gov tried to settle Vietnamese boat people in town but it didn’t work out too well. They wanted to work and there was little work for them. They settled up the road apiece in a medium sized city and worked in the factories there. This occurred back in the days when there was still a little sanity left in Connecticut.
The Comrade-Governor of the People’s Socialist State of Connecticut is today bringing in as many muzzies from Bosnia and Syria as he knows how. They are a nightmare, as one would expect. At least some of the Bosnians work, but the Syrians are going to the three main ghetto cities; Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford. Mosques are springing up all over.
My grandfather was a high school gym teacher and track coach for much of his life. He said they used to have fights back then just like they do now. He said if they insisted on fighting, he would give them a couple pairs of boxes gloves and let them go at it until one either tapped out and quit or, usually, one got a nice bloody nose. He said they often had knives on their belts, and there were always rifles on gun racks in the (unlocked) pickups of teachers and students alike. Not one time did it occur to them to stab each other with the pocket knives most of them carried in their pockets or go get their rifles or shotguns out of their trucks. Just didn’t happen. He also said more often than not after they had their fight and hurt each other a little, they’d be good friends after that. This was in rural Georgia and northern florida.
As y’all have already said, different times.