Snap. Similar except I was about 11. We used a firecracker as explosive. Shot a ball bearing through a metal fence. Around that time I had a [banned] shanghai. (spelling?) That’s what we called a slingshot. At the local dump we found a pile of small steel pellets, probably from the local car factory. Used them instead of small stones. They would make hole through a large bottle without breaking the bottle.
That was around the time there was a short-lived craze of kids making shurikens out of tin. Some nasty injuries at school. There was this Japanese kids show which featured a ninja with shurikens.
I recently discovered ‘The Purge’. Here one night a year all violent crime was permitted without penalty . The result was the deaths of a lot of poor people.
‘The Thinning’ is also interesting: Ina future in which over population is a problem, every country must reduce its population by 5% each year. This is done by The Thinning. School kids are given tests. Those with the lowest scores are executed. I wonder if that would have the long term effect of raising the IQ of a population? Don’t get put off by the fact that it has Logan Paul.