Posted February 20, 2018 9:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

In the wake of a mass shooting, anti-gunners have a peculiar tick that keeps popping up. This tick manifests as their desire to politicize the tragedy almost immediately while simultaneously doing everything they can to block anyone else doing anything remotely pro-firearm. Yes, yes, I know. It’s just typical anti-gun hypocrisy and I should be used to it, but there’s something more to it.

It’s not just them not wanting to give us a platform in the discussion, trying to use guilt for something we had nothing to do with to silence us. It’s the fact that they want a moratorium on anyone doing anything with a firearm.

Like giving one away in a raffle.

A Neosho youth baseball team, unaffiliated with the Neosho School District, has come under fire for a gun raffle designed to raise money for the team and their travels. The 9 and under baseball team was formed late last year by Coach Levi Patterson, who works for Midwest Storm Shelters.

The controversy arose because the raffle prize is a semi-automatic rifle, an AR-15 Spec 15 manufactured by Black Rain Ordnance in Neosho that retails, depending on the exact specifications, for approximately $1,000.

Although an AR-15 is often …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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