When I was in High School most boys had a 12 gauge in the trunk so they could hunt ducks or pheasants on the way home. I had a pocket knife in my pocket at all times, including school, from the time I was 8. My kids went to school in Laramie and all the boys had a buck knife on their belt at all times. The teachers were more obsessed with getting the cowboys to take off their hats than disarming them...