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From the Inbox... How true is this? | by kc5sdy | 2008-04-28 07:14:11 |
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Mostly glurge. | by werehatrack | 2008-04-28 10:18:09 |
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Not so... | by azander | 2008-04-28 11:39:14 |
| Yup, in 1980 in Wyoming. |
by werehatrack |
2008-04-28 12:43:37 |
By then, the gun rack in the back window of the pickup was a tolerable arrangement...but try that in a '58 model, and you won't try it twice.
Wyoming's population could be stashed unnoticed in a suburb of Chicago. Outlier customs don't define the norm globally.
In Cincinnati in 1958, on the other hand, an unsupervised minor with a firearm would have been grounds for a long talk with the parents at the very least...though a faculty member with a gun behind the seat probably would have made the principal nervous until he established that there was a good reason; the "I went hunting on the way to school" story would have fit poorly in most of urbanized America in that era.
Of course, I suspect that the gun in the rack of a pickup in Wyoming is still little cause for alarm, even today; that state's population is small enough that the fear factor is not as prevalent...plus, the phrase "cold, dead finger" is close to being engraved on the coinage there. And let us not forget that poaching is widely defined in much of the rural area of the plains as "somebody from somewhere else hunting our livestock out of season." To many of them, having meat on the table at all is often a matter of whether their accuracy with a rifle is good. |
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