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In my day, one of the favourite recess pastimes was sitting on the wooden benches in the bleachers playing games with pocketknives. And "injuries", in the form of nicks and tiny cuts were the norm.
Hate to rant (i.e. actually love to), but this is all part of the complete emasculation of society over the last 60 years. We live in a society that is by almost all objective measures safer than at any point in history, and we live in constant fear. We no longer have the option of taking care of our own problems, we have to let the government grind excruciatingly slowly to an inconclusive finale.
Heaven help us if we step over any of the hundreds of lines now drawn in the sand... a 6-yo boy hugs a female classmate - SEX OFFENDER!! A kid brings a multi-tool to show & tell - SUSPENSION!! A highschool kid gives a friend with a headache a Tylenol - DRUG DEALER!!
The first casualty to political correctness was common sense.
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The secret to great marksmanship is deciding what the target was AFTER you've shot.
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