Bring knives to school? Heck, we used to bring loaded cartridges to school and make them into cool chess sets. A 22 lr as the pawn, a 44 mag was a rook, a 308 was a bishop etc. Oh the things we nerds got away with in Chess club...
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)