http://www.newsobserver.com/news/education/wake/story/1030367.html

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"Less than a day before the March 15 district round of the decades-old N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission competition, one of East Wake's principals, with the support of the area superintendent who oversees that school, stopped the team from participating. The reason: Ammo and students don't mix, the school officials said."

Won't somebody think of the children?

4/9/2008 12:50:54 PM

What I can't find in the article is the type of guns that the FFA club was using? Were they using the same kinds of air rifles that are used by JROTC marksmanship teams, or were they using something of a higher caliber? We can sneak air rifles under the "no guns" laws because they don't actually use gunpowder, but if the FFA were using actual rifles, they're probably screwed.

4/9/2008 1:05:36 PM

^ My high school in eastern NC has trap shooting team. There were always guns on campus and I don't mean air rifles. Of course, they stayed locked up unless the team was practicing after school hours on the back edge of the school property. When I played tennis in high school, we used to hit our dead tennis balls into the air for them to shoot.

What's bullshit about the whole thing is the school administration is acting against a club the operates off school property for a tournament sponsored and endorsed by a state agency. There are also state policies and allow for and encourage firearms education in public schools.

4/9/2008 1:11:37 PM

I'm an ag teacher and we participate in this contest. (We didn't make it to the state level) All of the high schools and some of the middle schools in our area also participate. Teams practice off-campus after school hours and do not bring guns on campus. The contest is tightly controlled with respect to safety and teaches more about safety than anything else. There is no logical reason to bar the team from competing, unless it has been demonstrated that they were behaving in a dangerous way.

4/9/2008 8:12:17 PM

Haha, East Wake.

4/9/2008 8:20:00 PM

Clearly you guys are missing the point. Any time you put a gun in a student's hand they will instantly go on a killing rampage and annihilate the entire school in minutes.

4/9/2008 11:05:43 PM

Quote :

""The school and school board should have that right," said Roxane Kolar, executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence. "You have to assume a school knows what's best for their school.""

...But when it comes to self-defense, or even hunting...Roxane doesn't believe a person knows what's best for himself.

Quote :

"Chris Huebner of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission hunter's education program said the tournament promotes safety and is far from risky. "What we teach is what the consequences are and what [guns are] capable of doing," Huebner said. "It's all in the perspective of safety.""

We sure don't want any of that thar "safety" taught in our schools.

Quote :

"Lumley's mother, Carol, said the hunting education team's members are being unfairly characterized by the school system. "It's not like we're the rednecks that have to have guns," she said. "If this was promoting violence, what about wrestling? Is that promoting hand-to-hand combat?""

Hah..Excellent!

4/9/2008 11:15:17 PM

east wake has really gone down the shitter since i graduated.

4/9/2008 11:38:13 PM

Adults with guns don't kill people...

KIDS with guns kill people!

4/10/2008 8:24:41 AM

Is anyone really surprised the lengths to which many liberals will go to further their antigun agenda? And, yes, they can always and probably will hide behind their "for the children" catchall.

4/10/2008 8:52:34 AM

^ It surprises me though. East Wake (Zebulon) is not a liberal area by any means.

Time to dust off one of my favorite jokes.

Quote :

"The Boy Scouts were being given gun education by a Marine Corps general. A local reporter came to capture the action. She asked the general what he was teaching the Boy Scouts. The general talked about how they were teaching the Boy Scouts proper gun use, safety first, how to aim and hold correctly, etc. The reporter then asked if it was a good idea to fully equip kids how to kill someone. The general responded, "Ma'am. You're fully equipped to be a prostitute, but that doesn't mean you are one.""

[Edited on April 10, 2008 at 9:02 AM. Reason : /]

4/10/2008 9:01:48 AM

^ That's awesome. I'd never heard that.

4/10/2008 9:39:59 AM

it's not a real story

http://www.snopes.com/military/reinwald.asp



(he didnt imply it was, but just to clarify)

4/10/2008 9:46:41 AM