In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns
In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns
The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavio…
I don't agree with the thesis of this article. I do not like 4-H taking NRA money and I think 8 is too young, but I have no issue in general with kids participating in shooting sports. Learning to shoot skeet or targets is not going to lead to mass shootings. That is not what is normalizing guns. Also, shooting sports generally use rifles (and not AR-15s) while most mass shootings are done with handguns. As far as I can see, shooting sports are not all that different from archery. I don't think archery is going to lead to killing either.
Shooting sports are one of the more legitimate uses of guns. They are not what is glorifying guns and making a gun culture in America.
Shooting sports are one of the more legitimate uses of guns. They are not what is glorifying guns
Gun sports absolutely glorify guns. Are you trolling right now? Jesus christ.
No, they don't. It's a sport. It's in the Olympics.
Carrying rifles in cases to the range, putting on your protective gear and learning all the safety procedures, then learning proper stances and target shooting teaches respect for guns.
This is coming from someone who took shooting sports through 4-H starting at like 10, and doesn't own a single gun today. It really is like archery or any other sport. I enjoy archery more and went on to be a 4-H archery instructor for a while.
I have absolutely no problem with people using guns in a target shooting type of way.
Or in other responsible types of ways, like properly managed hunting or where there are things like moose and polar and grizzly bears. Guns are tools.
I don't like guns, but I understand. Gun nuts are the problem, as are guns as tools that are only designed to kill humans. I can even understand why people would want to shoot an assault rifle or other weapon of war.
It just needs to be controlled.
The worst part is that I would really like to spend an afternoon blowing shit up. Go to someplace fun. Learn about the process. Then push the pluger.
The problem is that that's actually well controlled. Enough so that I can't really find a good way to experience it outside of a construction project in my past.
I don't think 8 is too young. I think kids need to be exposed to responsible gun use long before they see irresponsible gun use in fiction.
The problem isn't the "glorification" of guns as others have suggested. The problem is normalization of criminal gun use. Responsible gun use should be depicted as the rule, not the rare exception. A kid should not be seeing a gang member or white supremacist murdering a cop on TV before she has been taught the four rules and how to handle a BB gun.
OP in here flaming lmao
Edit: Don't see why I'm getting downvoted. Dudes speaking facts.
This is such a bullshit article. Yeah the NRA is a terrible organization and there are a lot of reasons to attack them. But attacking the educational, gun safety and shooting sports programs that they offer or fund is complete bullshit and is detrimental to the public good.
This is like saying we shouldn’t offer driving classes because one day a student might get into an accident.
Correlation is not causation.
This is like saying we shouldn’t offer driving classes because one day a student might get into an accident.
No, it's like saying driving classes shouldn't be beholden to funding from the "Reckless Driving Is Fun Yeehaw Get-er-Done" club. You're just flat out misrepresenting the article. Did you actually read the article? Because it sure does sound like you're just replying to the headline.
Without funding from the NRA those programs and facilities likely would not exist. I read this article for exactly what it is, a hit piece by anti 2A advocates to keep knowledge of firearms that does not fit their narrative from the public.
Even if the classes provide a public service and help save lives it doesn’t fit the “guns are bad Mckaaay” narrative they want to push.
This is like saying we shouldn’t offer driving classes because one day a student might get into an accident.
This is a hilarious example considering that in most states you have to be like 16 or something before any driving classes are offered. For precisely the reason you stated.
It's additionally hilarious because cars are something that just about every person in America has to use at some point. Transportation is essential and there are very few other ways to do it, thus driving privileges that are easily and affordably obtained even at the young age of 16 or so are a necessary and calculated risk. I personally would not want that to be a reality for guns and defense, but what do I know.
Sounds like we should pass another amendment guaranteeing access to driving…