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[โ€“] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The dumbest rule that fortunately was only "tried" to be enforced was no gun racks in the student vehicles in the parking lot. This is was a rural area where for almost a hundred years people would have guns in the gun-racks in their trucks mostly. But with fire arm thefts etc it was pretty rare to actually have a gun loaded or unloaded in the gun-rack. Generally you'd just have the gun in the rack if you were hunting, or patrolling your ranch or whatever.

Then Columbine happened and suddenly gun-racks and leather trench coats, aka dusters, another extremely common piece of clothing in a rural ranching town were priority number one by reactionary's. Hundreds of otherwise lawful students were suspended, ticketed, arrested etc and finally after several months I assume someone had a "are we the baddies?" moment, and coupled with hundreds of lawsuits, the school system got a new superintendent and suddenly gun racks and dusters were back to being treated as the mundane items they are.

[โ€“] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

I guarantee you there was never a "are we the baddies" moment, because that requires critical thinking and self reflection.

It was entirely because of lawsuits.

[โ€“] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

But with fire arm thefts etc it was pretty rare to actually have a gun loaded or unloaded in the gun-rack.

So what you're saying is, people did - rarely - leave guns unattended in a car? Students no less?And that is legal? Murica gets more absurd every time I read about it.

Under no circumstances in the wrold would I leave my unsecured guns in a car.

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[โ€“] Rinnarrae@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not a rule, but some stupid thing that was allowed to slip by for way too long.

My highschool's firewall would often block the most innocuous websites, but that somehow did not include Pornhub. While they did eventually add it in, by that point it had been a known thing for years with even multiple cases of students going on it during classes.

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[โ€“] stokholm@feddit.dk 13 points 1 year ago

No bottle flips.

[โ€“] Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I made up a monster called dogger that lived at the end of the field in my primary school.

His arms and legs were made of rats if I recall correctly.

Ross got so upset that we were banned from saying that word.

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