Proponents Defend School Rifle Teams As Teaching Discipline, Not Violence

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Posted April 10, 2018 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

School rifle teams aren’t as common as football and basketball teams, but they do exist. It’s tricky enough to have one what with rules like “zero tolerance” that’ll punish a kid for an incorrectly shaped Pop Tart. It’s hard to imagine schools like that allowing students to physically touch an actual firearm.

But they exist.

Yet, as the media focuses a lot of attention on kids protesting guns, the Associated Press decided to focus a little attention on those who actually shoot and how these types of clubs can benefit students (emphasis mine).

DAHLONEGA, Ga. (AP) — Their classmates took to the streets to protest gun violence and to implore adults to restrict guns, seeming to forecast a generational shift in attitudes toward the Second Amendment. But at high school and college gun ranges around the country, these teens and young adults gather to practice shooting and talk about the positive influence firearms have had on their lives.

What do they say they learn? Patience. Discipline. Responsibility.

“I’ve never gone out onto a range and not learned something new,” said Lydia Odlin, a 21-year-old member of the Georgia Southern University rifle team.

There are an estimated 5,000 teams at …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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