Until you change the education system that has brainwashed current generations and the socialist marxist indoctrination is replaced with real American ideals, you will NEVER normalize OC.
When kids are suspended for going bang with their finger pointed, or an 11 year is suspended for saying the word gun, or a kid is suspended for chewing a poptart into the shape of a gun, there wont be any "normlization" of OC.
I grew up in an era where we took our rifle or shotgun (depending on the hunting season) toschool and kept it there until school was out and then hunted the canyons and fields on the way home. No that was not some remote rural town, it was oregon city, or.
The kids now and since the 60's are brainwashed and communized.
Just as Kruschev stated "we'll beat you without firing a shot"
Today things are not normal in America period ! They never will be again, until Americans get the juevos to take education out of these socialist, marxist, communists hands. No, I DO NOT EXAGGERATE ANY OF IT.
From McCarthy forward, America has become AmeriKa. People have been diverted by nonsense and gadgetry and entertainment into a closed box of self centered me,me,me and blinded by this apathy while they strolled in and took your kids minds and created the left wing extremism that is rampant in society today. They have infiltrated into education, politics (in a big way), enviromentalism, fish and wildlife, planning commissions and any and all places that they can exert control over the people. It is so rampant half the population is accepting it as "norm" without knowing any better. IE; they were educated (brainwashed) that way.
Personally, I think the "commie" insinuations are more than a stretch but I will agree times have changed.
At any rate, relative to the bolded in the quote I was a grade schooler in the early 70's. At recess we had very well organized "war" games. We drew up pictures of what kind of soldier we were. Some were machine gunners, others were grenadiers, and I was a medic which is kind of funny because that's what I do now! There were 20-30 of us that played war at every recess. We ran around and shot our fingers at each other and blew each other up. That was just normal kid stuff then. I do have to admit it all came to a screaching halt one spring. Several of us decided to be bombers (as in jets) and we loaded up with rocks and sand in our hands and would fly around the play ground and drop our ordnace on unsuspecting kids. My plane was knocked out of the sky when I made a 9g turn right into the "wing" of another plane and knocked my two front teeth out. Our squadron commander (Mrs. McDaniel, 1st grade teacher) grounded us all after that. Pluse the victims of our airstrikes told on us.