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When we were growing up there was a few "bad apples" kids. The difference was there was jails in those days for the kids who could not function in society. It was VERY rare to ever know a kid who had been locked up for a while in one of these. All my life I knew one a passing level a couple of them. One thing I remember was it was not treated like some kind of joke. NO ONE wanted to end up in one of the jails. When I started High School it was already a waste of my time and the schools. I showed up and did the min I had to do to not get tossed out as in those days you either went to school till you were 16 or they put you in a locked place where you went to school. So I toed the line enough to stay out until I turned 16 at which point I told them OK, you have no hold on me now.You're just 5 years older than me. Something your post made me think of. Back in those days I doubt the media, (What? Three channels?), had such an agenda. Was not hell-bent on changing the public's perception of things. The Viet Nam war, it says, was from 1954-1975. "Communism" was the headline of the day! Parents allowed their children freedoms, but protected them from serious adult topics. Christ, now parents take their young children to protests where violence is likely to happen. They teach their children that they are racist or they have suffered, or are, suffering because of racism.
I'd be willing to bet there were some crazy kids that went of the rails and killed people back in our days. You know, as you were growing up, there were those kids in your neighborhood alway getting in trouble? their parent drank, or beat on each other? Or some that lived, on the other side of the tracks, rolleyes so to speak, that were "No damn good" according to your parents. Now days those kids take it to the next step. Social media seems like as good a thing as any other to put part of the blame on. Parenting is another good one. We were pretty happy as kids. But we were raised in a completely different way.
Case in point: Teaching third graders they could be a boy or a girl.
No, it's not the gun. There's something else rotten with our society. I'm just F'ing glad I'm as old as I am. We had some damn good times my friend.