I graduated from high school in 1971...

[First Speaker]

...there were no locks on the doors, no security guards. If you had to leave the school, you left. If you had to enter, you just walked in the front door, talked to a secretary, and she either took your message, or actually directed you if you needed to go somewhere. No questions asked. No hassle. I remember civil defense drills, from an earlier time...and tornado drills, in the Midwest. But drills for mass shooting? A Russian invasion would have seemed more likely. It would have been literally unthinkable. And this was at the height of the "Sixties", and the protests. How far we've come protecting our "constitutional rights" since then...

[Hoyt]

1. Yep. And as much as they try, GOPers cant blame this one on minorities. Eom.

[Sneederbunk]

2. I blame it on the minority NRA (New Russian Ally)

[Hoyt]

5. NRA, and millions of white wing racist gun owning freeriders, too cheap

to pay dues.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I feel like Russia DID invade us in a way.

A cold "cyber/tech" war. And they won!

[Hoyt]

6. We really should have been prepared, but didnt respond adequately in time.

It’s definitely a cyber war and if we don’t get our defense ready, we are going to beaten (assuming trump doesn’t sink us).

[BigmanPigman]

8. Malcolm Nance said that since Putin knows the US is onto his tricks

he as already moved onto Plans B and C. They are way ahead of us and we are woefully unprepared.

[LeftInTX]

4. We had a campus cop in 1971-72

We called him "Deputy Dawg". He wore plain clothes. I have no idea if he carried a gun. He was mainly there to make sure drugs weren't at the school.
He was gone the next year.

[dhill926]

7. Right on...

same here...

[Yupster]

9. Same with me

Guns were everywhere. It wasn't unusual to see kids with guns, and yet no mass school shootings. Our school had race riots and everyone carried at least a pocket knife and yet, no one ever took out a gun or even used their knives as far as I can remember.

So what's different with today's generation where young people think it's okay to come to a school and shoot random people.

[world wide wally]

10. Which brings up a question:

How many rights have we had to give up to preserve the 2A rights of the cry baby whiners?

[Calista241]

11. We had a dude that drove a pickup to high school with a gun rack in the back.

and he would go hunting before and after school.

One of my friends brought a handgun to high school and showed it to me. I thought it was cool, and it never even occurred to me that he could use it to actually shoot someone with it.

[Journeyman]

12. I graduated same time, yet my high school had armed sheriffs at the gates . . .

They didn't patrol campus, nor were there metal detectors or spot searches, but the sheriffs watched us all day. There were a few riots in the years I was there, and a couple people were knifed, but nothing horrific. I remember a guy at a neighboring high school walked into a class and blew another student's brains out with a handgun. Something gang related, as I recall. But it was an interregnum between the gangs of the '50s with their slicked back hair and hot rods, and the gangs of the middle '70s, when drugs and money and weapons drove the violence.

It was a very diverse school, lots of different peoples from an incredible range of backgrounds, but the atmosphere was more cordial than confrontational, and the lure of raucous partying had more pull than any misplaced desire for revenge.

Maybe because the War hung so heavily over us, and the threat of the violence we'd soon see was too palpable. I don't know. Simpler times. Not as many fears as today.

This was in southwest Los Angeles county.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. I graduated the same yr. All our classrooms were individual buildings, no hallways, outside book

lockers. Separate administative building, lunch room and gym. Closed campus with a parking lot attendant, restroom attendant, that was it for security.
Schools with that design are probably a nightmare for these times.

[safeinOhio]

14. Graduated in 1968 and every kid in

my school was issued a M1 carbine with no firing pin or bullets. No shootings. Military School.