Ain't It the Truth

[Troutfisher]

What a difference 50 years make!

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1956 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

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Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1956 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1956 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1956 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to

College, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's Mom has affair with psychologist.

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Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.

1956 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2006 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car Searched for drugs and weapons.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1956 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1956: Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006: Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.

1956 - Ants die.

2006 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.

1956 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.

[Grey Wolf]

Sad but true.

[Panamoka_Bassin]

Yep, that's about the way it seems to be going.  What a great thing this "new sensativity" has become.

[fishbear]

Isnt it amaziing what happens when a society becomes "ENLIGHTENED"??????????

[senile1]

There was a time when enlightenment wasn't synonymous with a total lack of common sense.

[Troutfisher]

Yeah, sadly, we're headed down a road that is depleting our common sense.  

[BucketmouthAngler13]

Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1956 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

And people wonder why there was less crime back then. Becuase people carried rifles in their cars, people didn't hi-jack cars. Becuase people had pistols in their bed stands, robbers didnt come running into houses. Becuase when some one murder some one else, he would get the chair, not 10 years in prision.

Makes a fellow wonder where the legal system will be in 20 years....

[fishbear]

Ufortunately, we have legislated stupidity back into the gene pool.  It used to be if you did sometining really stupid, if the actions did not take you out of the gene pool and you continued those actions sooner or later it would.... or at least no one would think you were justified in doing something stupid.

Now, the goverment legislates laws to protect us from our own stupid actions, and we can sue and live on the money of others because we do stupid and/or dangerous things.....  and keep the stupid dna in the gene pool.....

No wonder this country is getting dumber and dumber, and lazier and lazier....

Do not mean to sound harsh, but come on,,,,,,,

think I will head on down to MacDonalds,,see if I can spill super hot coffee in my lap...... I see a new bass boat coming.   ;D :

[BASS fisherman]

If interested on the topic, go out and get the book called "1984"  written by George Orwell.  

[Troutfisher]

And people wonder why there was less crime back then. Becuase people carried rifles in their cars, people didn't hi-jack cars. Becuase people had pistols in their bed stands, robbers didnt come running into houses. Becuase when some one murder some one else, he would get the chair, not 10 years in prision.

Makes a fellow wonder where the legal system will be in 20 years....

That's why West Virginia has one of the lowest murder rates in the country. We have on average of 5-10 murders per year in our largest city, Charleston. The reason? West Virginians have loose gun laws. However, take a city like Chicago which has very strict gun laws, and look at the murder rate there.

[Bass XL]

yeah that is how it works. sad.

being rated the dangerous city in america-st.louis-(even though there are alot more dangerous cities) you hear about 3-4 murders daily, 1-2 fires caused by arson, and a ton more.

[paparock]

Back then my friends and I could take our .22s to school and leave them in the principles office because a bunch of us boys were going squirrel hunting after school. None of us would have ever thought of shooting other kids or teachers. I guess back then we were smart enough to realize that doing such a thing would be throwing away the rest of our lives so we just duked it out and left it at that.

[KU_Bassmaster.]

It's not the laws .... it's the people and lawyers trying to make a buck anyway they can.

My grandpa and I get into this discussion all the time, most recently Thanksgiving.  He told me of a story when he was a little boy .... around 7 years old or so.  His dad let him sit on his lap and drive the car.  Well one time he accidentally hit a mail man pretty good and broke some of his ribs.  My great grandfather supposedly got out and apologized up and down and the mail man accepted his apology and supposedly even got a laugh out of it.  My great grandfather was the local barber and offered him some free haircuts even though the mailman had completely accepted the apology.  

Could you imagine what would happen today in that situation??????

There's more though ....... The mailman came in for the next year for his free haircuts where my grandfather also worked.  Keep in mind he is 7 years old (wouldn't happen today) He swept the floors and shined shoes.  Every time the mailman would come in my grandpa would shine his shoes and tip him what it would have cost him for a haircut.  He told him each time to save up for his first car and got a good laugh at it.

[fishingrulz]

As James Hetfield once said.......SAD BUT TRUE!!!

;D that picture is great. Metallica action figures.

[Troutfisher]

It's not the laws .... it's the people and lawyers trying to make a buck anyway they can.

My grandpa and I get into this discussion all the time, most recently Thanksgiving. He told me of a story when he was a little boy .... around 7 years old or so. His dad let him sit on his lap and drive the car. Well one time he accidentally hit a mail man pretty good and broke some of his ribs. My great grandfather supposedly got out and apologized up and down and the mail man accepted his apology and supposedly even got a laugh out of it. My great grandfather was the local barber and offered him some free haircuts even though the mailman had completely accepted the apology.

Could you imagine what would happen today in that situation??????

There's more though ....... The mailman came in for the next year for his free haircuts where my grandfather also worked. Keep in mind he is 7 years old (wouldn't happen today) He swept the floors and shined shoes. Every time the mailman would come in my grandpa would shine his shoes and tip him what it would have cost him for a haircut. He told him each time to save up for his first car and got a good laugh at it.

Ha, imagine if that would happen today. L-A-W-S-U-I-T!  Probably in the million dollar range.

[justfishin]

I am 50 so your post rang a lot of bells. Thanks, it was funny but, held true. I alway told my Mom that if we lived in this day and age she would have gotten life for some of those A** whoopins I got as a kid when I was a little too ornery. I tell you this, that woman could down a deer at 100 yards with a flip flop !!!, lol.