I will assume you gave this response in good faith and respond.
In the 1950s, kids in rural area high schools brought guns to school all the time as they would go hunting before school. Nobody freaked out and schools didn't go on lockdown.
Those were single shot .22s and BB air rifles. Not automatic* AR-15s. This was an era where targets were of round circles or silhouettes of animals not silhouettes of humans. This was an era where all rifle were hunting rifles not assault rifles. I want that era back too. I will make you this compromise that I am sure almost all gun reform advocates would sign onto and almost none of the gun industry lobbyist. In exchange for a complete ban on all automatic weapons, you can have your school gun clubs back, I will even toss in to the deal a national inclusion of rifle shooting into the 7-12 PE classes.
*Automatic = auto reloading refers to both semi- and fully-.
In the 1950's, a teacher could give a student a hug without being accused of being a pedophile
Extremely unlikely that a teacher would hug a student in the 1950s. Based on what my mother told me the relationship between teachers and students were much more formal and distant than they are today. My mom was in utter shock the first time she saw one of her teachers in a grocery store.
However, you do bring up a larger point. Today there are considerably more protections to prevent children from being preyed upon by pedophiles. While it was extremely rare to occur by a teacher in a day school. It was extremely common in boarding schools and by clergy. Changes have been made to protect children. Seems odd that you oppose protecting children from actual pedophiles while pretending that treating homosexuals equally will lead children to being venerable to pedophile.
In the 1950's, kids could bring asprin or cough syrup to school without being charged with bringing drugs to school
Kids are not "charged" (which implies criminality). However, most schools have policies that require that children don't self-medicate particularly if the medicine requires a prescription or is not allowed to be sold to minors. Most parents would prefer to provide any medication be dispensed by an adult and only after receiving expressed permission for the parent. Having a first grader responsible of their own medication is highly irresponsible. Also given how kids love to share and try new things, quite dangerous for the other children. There are incidents were exceptions aren't made and should be. But this is part of a larger trend to keep children safe including car seats, bicycle helmets, and seat belts on shopping carts. I consider this a net positive.
In the 1950's, kids were taught right from wrong and also taught to take responsibility for the accidents they caused
This is a non-sense statement. Children are taught right from wrong and to take responsibility. There has been some change in what is right and wrong though. More people were taught segregation was right and integration was wrong in 1950 than in 2022.
In the 1950s, sodas were made with real cane sugar, not that nasty high fructose corn syrup
This one I will agree with you whole heartedly. For a while Costco was carrying a brand with real cane sugar, but alas like with everything else there it is no longer. And in general food was of a better quality in the 50's with more natural ingredients and less synthetic crap. So what government action would like to see happen? While *I* would love to see the FDA take a greater role in mandating better ingredients and adopt the food purity laws of the EU, I am pretty sure any regulation that was wide sweeping enough to mandate that real sugar be used in soda instead of corn syrup would be decried as "nanny state" by those most likely to praise the 1950's.
In the 1950s, if you said something disrespectful to an adult, you didn't get your phone taken away.... you got the shit smacked outta you. And when you did, Child Services didn't get involved
I am noticing a theme here about children. The 1950s was better because child abuse was not as unacceptable. I am gonna disagree with this one as well.
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