Times change but are things better?

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When I was young my mother sent me in the store at age 10 or 11 to buy her cigarettes. The clerk looked at me briefly and sold them to me. Today you must produce and I.D. and be 18.

When I was in high school, the students had a designated smoking area. Now that would be crazy considering under 18 they are breaking the law. Still doesn't keep kids from smoking.

When I was in school, knives were forbidden. All the guys had a pocketknife on them and half the girls did too. Teachers knew it and didn't care unless something happened. Now a lot of schools have metal detectors.

In high school most of us deer hunted before or after school. Which meant we had guns & knives in our vehicle. No one worried about it as a big deal. Now they would call the national guard if someone carried a gun on campus. No one considered invading the school because too many weapons available.

When I turned 19, I could legally buy alcohol. Now it is 21, but many underage teens still drink regardless.

I am trying to say the government keeps trying to protect us from ourselves but we were far better off with less government. I miss liberty.
 
Yeah man, I really think all this paranoia from wimps has ruined what we have the potential to be. Schools are crazy now, and the amount of surveillance and authority they pound into schools is just making worse and worse criminals. Tell a kid he can't do something, he's gonna do it. There were almost NO school shootings back in the day, and everybody had a gun... now, there are hardly any kids with guns, and the incidents are more numerous... WTF? I really just think the government needs to back off a little ya know? Even on stuff as simple as sharing music!! Christ, if a person buys a CD, then uploads that CD to a file sharing site, and a bunch of people download it, they're all in trouble for copyright infringement... so the government is basically saying, "SHARING IS ILLEGAL!!!" WTF?!?!?! Now we're not allowed to do something nice for other people?? Because P-fuckin-Diddy missed out on a few people BUYING his CD from a corporate monster like Best Buy or some shit??!?! Oh my god, his family's gonna starve... anyway, got carried away, but you get the point...
 
Well and the focus is just on entirely the wrong shit with schools too. They're worrying about what kids are wearing, and whether or not they're kissing their boyfriends and shit, but they have sex offenders running the girls basketball teams. A guy down here just got busted for THE 5TH TIME for trying to seduce a girl under 15!!!!
 
AUFred said:
When I was young my mother sent me in the store at age 10 or 11 to buy her cigarettes. The clerk looked at me briefly and sold them to me. Today you must produce and I.D. and be 18.

When I was in high school, the students had a designated smoking area. Now that would be crazy considering under 18 they are breaking the law. Still doesn't keep kids from smoking.

When I was in school, knives were forbidden. All the guys had a pocketknife on them and half the girls did too. Teachers knew it and didn't care unless something happened. Now a lot of schools have metal detectors.

In high school most of us deer hunted before or after school. Which meant we had guns & knives in our vehicle. No one worried about it as a big deal. Now they would call the national guard if someone carried a gun on campus. No one considered invading the school because too many weapons available.

When I turned 19, I could legally buy alcohol. Now it is 21, but many underage teens still drink regardless.

I am trying to say the government keeps trying to protect us from ourselves but we were far better off with less government. I miss liberty.
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16 to buy smokes here
No designated smoking areas in the schools around here...its no smoking.:nod:
No metal detectors up here...I dont think there are any in Sydney
I still cant fathom hunting...and even more so before school...and to take your hunting gun with you afterwards:willy_nilly:
18 to buy alcohol here, but underage drinking is a huge problem
 
Only way I can explain the hunting is it was a tradition. Young boys & girls were taught marksmanship at an early age with b-b guns, slingshots & bows & arrows. When we got older we would get our first shotgun & rimfire rifle. Eventually advancing to centerfire rifles. We were taught good gun safety and praised for our hunting prowess at being able to hunt, clean and prepare the game for our Moms to cook. Traditionally the opening of deer season really got everyone excited because outside of deer in Alabama back then we only had small game..ie, squirrels, rabbits, dove & quail. Ducks were not very plentiful back then and wild hogs had not invaded Alabama. There was some raccoon hunting back then but not a lot.

I have never taken the life of an animal I did not pause over. I was taught that hunting was a privilege but to treat all animals with respect. I have injured a few and spent hours finding them so they did not suffer. A poor hunter injures game and allows it to die a slow death. I'm sure if you were not raised in a hunting environment it is hard to understand but I was raised in a rural environment and being poor wild game was a winter staple.
 
AUFred said:
When I was young my mother sent me in the store at age 10 or 11 to buy her cigarettes. The clerk looked at me briefly and sold them to me. Today you must produce and I.D. and be 18.

When I was in high school, the students had a designated smoking area. Now that would be crazy considering under 18 they are breaking the law. Still doesn't keep kids from smoking.

When I was in school, knives were forbidden. All the guys had a pocketknife on them and half the girls did too. Teachers knew it and didn't care unless something happened. Now a lot of schools have metal detectors.

In high school most of us deer hunted before or after school. Which meant we had guns & knives in our vehicle. No one worried about it as a big deal. Now they would call the national guard if someone carried a gun on campus. No one considered invading the school because too many weapons available.

When I turned 19, I could legally buy alcohol. Now it is 21, but many underage teens still drink regardless.

I am trying to say the government keeps trying to protect us from ourselves but we were far better off with less government. I miss liberty.
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I can't fathom why the drinking age is 21 in the states, yet you can drive or get a gun being 16-18, can vote at what 18? Join the military also? You can get married before your of legal age to drink too.

So messed up
 
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Thornless said:
I can't fathom why the drinking age is 21 in the states, yet you can drive or get a gun being 16-18, can vote at what 18? Join the military also? You can get married before your of legal age to drink too.

So messed up
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Yea, gotta love how the government expects people to be able to risk their life to defend this country when they turn 18 yet won't let them drink alcohol.
 
Thornless said:
Too busy counting their money too :D
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AUFred said:
It is all about the money.
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handed to them by the corporations they represent. Piles and piles of dirty, dirty money. It would be much nicer if the nanny state actually did something useful, like doing the dishes and changing the diapers.

Kyle B said:
Yea, gotta love how the government expects people to be able to risk their life to defend this country when they turn 18 yet won't let them drink alcohol.
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in the govt's defense of this one, alcohol is by far the most dangerous drug to society.
 
I liked my dad's theory, lower the age limit to 16 for driving, drinking, guns, legalize weed and prostitution(but tax it like Canada does their cigarettes :24:, put that money toward roads, countries healthcare) etc.

Everyone won't go over board since they are doing it illegally anyway.
 
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