As long as we're doing the "back in my day" thing I'll chime in.:uhyeah: When I was in high school you could still carry a knife in your pocket or on your hip... to class. You could still carry your hunting rifle to school in your gun rack on your pick-up. We had fights but no-one ever drew a weapon. It was just a point of honor, I guess, to be able to take care of business with your bare hands. Back then the teachers and principals did their investigations, figured out what happened and took it from there. Maybe knowing that someone actually gave enough of a damn to figure out who did what was something of a deterent to pushing things too far.Well, back it up 10 years further, Arni, and your arrive at my day. In those days, self-defense was self-defense. And if you just had a beef with another *fighter*, you took it off campus at lunch or after school, and the last man standing was probably the winner (although I saw one guy with both eyes streaming so much blood he couldn't see, so it's a toss up who won that one). BTW, we never had a single case of a friend stepping in till it was over, and that was only to help someone make it to his car or back to campus.
Makes you kind of miss the old days.