always opened. We played outside in front of the school, in the hedges around the flag pole. I was brought up in the country, on a farm, and the nearest neighbor was 3/4 mile away. If we needed police, the sheriff might get there in 30 minutes.
In that community, I never saw a gun. 99% of all our farmland was posted "No Hunting". I once let the air out of an uncle's tires because he showed up to hunt on our posted land.
I was living in a city when my son began school in 1975. Again, I clearly remember walking into his unlocked school to attend plays and skits and teacher conferences. I honestly didn't know that children today spend school hours locked inside a building.
I hate what this country has become since WWII. We ignore the sanctioned killing done by our military that has been going on for 70 years! We ignore the deaths of our own sons and daughters involved in our military 'operations'. We're perfectly willing to allow our fellow citizens to die from lack of money, lack of medical care, and through our violence.
We have a generation of young males that can't write a sentence, but can virtually kill through video games. And we are drowning in a sea of guns.
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