Guns in HS Senior Photos

[Browncoat]

Politics removed, I enjoy these types of posts. Where people stand is often directly related to where the grew up/lived.

As I mentioned, where I live, teachers in our schools are armed. Here, kids can also take days off school during hunting season to go out and hunt. I can think of several local gun shops. Fish and game type clubs and activities are common (archery, skeet shooting, etc). I could go through the Walmart parking lot right now and probably find 10 trucks with gun racks in the back window.

Seeing a HS senior pose with a weapon is no shock to me. Granted, as pro-gun as we are here, our yearbook photos are still just traditional portrait head shots. My wife brought up a good point when I discussed this with her earlier. Yearbooks are for school activities. Unless there is some kind of school-sponsored hunting team, then those photos have no place in the yearbook. I hadn't really thought of it that way, but it's a valid concern.

I don't see this even being an issue in New York or Martha's Vineyard. But in Nebraska or Virginia? Sure. Those are very different areas of the country, and while the national media would lead you to believe that we are all Americans of one voice, we are far from it.

 

[john*thomas]

Here is some food for thought: Since these photographs are supposedly portraying a "way of life", what would someones reaction be if a male student wanted to pose in drag? It's his "way of life". I can bet anything that there would be an uproar and that everyone would be "up in arms". There are many more examples that i can use, but i think most people will get the point. Despite the fact that hunting and guns is a deep rooted "way of life" for these folks, they still feel the need to portray it in a HS year book, which to me is kind of a "in your face" move. I am sure they are proud people and good for them. I personally still don't see the connection, but i am not from Nebraska

Live and let live, IMO.

When I was in school we had a gun club. Many people brought their 22's to school. Nobody shot anyone else.

 

[carguy]

WARNING: This is a very left-leaning article.

LoLoL

 

[STM]

There is a comment section below the article.

So I can't leave a comment here as well?

 

[AC016]

So I can't leave a comment here as well?

Leave it where you like, including in the comment section below the article. It's better served directed at the source of the article anyhow

 

[nikonpup]

things have changed since my school pic days, "go rams". wonder what she will think of the class photos of her great grand kids?