High School Shooting Teams Are Getting Wildly Popular — And the NRA Is Helping

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High School Shooting Teams Are Getting Wildly Popular — And the NRA Is Helping

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In much of the country, the words guns and schools do tend to go together more often in horrific headlines than under a senior portrait, wedged between Class Treasurer and Spring Track. But more and more yearbooks are marking competitive shooting as a part of high school life. Even as mass shootings have inspired protests and walkouts in many schools, a growing number—-sometimes the same schools—are sanctioning shooting squads as an extracurricular activity. In 2015, for example, 9,245 students, in 317 schools across three states, participated in the USA High School Clay Target League. Since then, participation has spiked 137%: in 2018, 21,917 students, from 804 teams in 20 states—-including New York and California, as well as Texas—competed.
Go RTWT, there's lots more. I think the author clearly doesn't like this development, but it's not a one-sided diatribe.

http://time.com/longform/high-school-shooting-teams/
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Great article ELB. Thanks for posting. :thumbs2:
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