Credit: AR15Armory.com
A group of third graders in Missouri has been asked to sell raffle tickets for an AR-15 military-style assault weapon after a similar gun was used in a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Community baseball team coach Levi Patterson told The Kansas City Star that the decision to sell raffle ticketswas made before the shooting that killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The weapon was reportedly donated by the co-founder of Black Rain Ordnance Inc., who is the father of one of the players.
Patterson told the paper that he initially considered raffling a different item after the mass shooting, but he changed his mind after receiving criticism from what he called a “hate group” on Facebook. After that, Patterson said that he decided to turn the AR-15 raffle “into a positive thing.”
But Patterson later admitted that he did not know if the messages on Facebook came from a “hate group.”
“I applaud them for standing up for what they believe in. I just think they have feelings to this specific type of gun (that […]
I grew up in rural eastern NC in the 50’s and 60’s. I had a .22 rifle and my father had shot guns and a hand gun we didn’t worship them or the right to have them. I still don’t understand the gun culture. How did this come to be, when was the transition?
I can appreciate the engineering and craftsmanship but it’s purpose is to kill. Not needed in our unconscious and too pain filled dream world.
Will, it was/is not about the guns. It’s about the profit that is generated when they are sold. The issue is not the NRA or the gun culture. The issue is capitalism and the more deadly offsprings of empire, Imperialism and militarism. Even Bernie Sanders never speaks about any of this.
Stephan, two years ago there was pressure from my tribe to try Ayahuasca. I succumbed. As with LSD some 50 years ago, I only needed one attempt to unlock what was lurking in my own non-local consciousness. As I read your fellow Whidbey Islander, Mark Brady’s Sunday edition, I see how small, how unevolved we humans are to the rest of the natural world, either animate or inanimate. Being a human is an absurd proposition.
Since he has left his film history as the mad Canuck with the rubber face, Jim Carrey points out ‘beneath the covers’, we are an insane, absurd species, which with all the articles you post daily, barely deserves a plate at the table. Existence is absurd for humans. This also seems to be the essential teaching of Alan Watts and Ram Dass; although they may not say that. BTW, today’s Weather Network map of NA shows temperatures of +14C in the Arctic, north of Alaska and Nunavut. hahaha
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/february-pattern-change-polar-vortex-stratospheric-warming-canada-ontario-british-columbia-quebec-atlantic-canada-prairies/95534/
IF we are made in G-d’s image, then what does that say?
(Poor) man’s birth control. Maybe these people unconsciously hate their/children? Now that they’re forced to have them? Maybe the original innocence in themselves? These are only questions.
No one in my family ever needed a gun for any reason, and I see no reason for anyone to have a gun. A gun used for legal shooting of game, which many people use for food should be stored at a police station until hunting season and put back into the police station after hunting season is over, and never kept at home. That is the way I see for eliminating these extreme shootings of people for no reason. Of course I am a vegetarian, and would never have a gun in my house.