http://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/17/liberals-try-claim-florida-shooter-trained-nra/
... What was the NRA doing hanging around at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School? Well ... it turns out they weren't. Those headlines are a bit more overblown than the way the Associated Press describes the situation, which is at least a bit more honest. The "rifle team" in question was actually a marksmanship program. And it wasn't run by the NRA, but by the Army Junior ROTC. And the "rifles" were air-powered pellet guns. They did, however, receive a grant to operate the program and purchase equipment. ...
The honest description would have been to say that the Army was running a training program, but I suppose that doesn't make for as good of a fundraising letter. Getting these programs off the ground isn't cheap, however, so they accepted a grant from the NRA, just as hundreds of schools across thirty states do every year. The NRA also offers grants to local gun clubs, Boy Scout troops and churches. One of their educational outreach programs where they actually do go to schools is for safety training, where Eddie Eagle helps teach younger children to never touch guns without parental supervision and to "run away" from them to avoid danger.
At Marjory Stoneman Douglas they used the NRA funds to supplement the small amount of money the JROTC gets from the U.S. Army. They used the NRA grant to purchase things such as safety glasses and Kevlar curtains. And just to stress this again, they use air rifles, similar to the ones you see the Olympic athletes firing in the biathlon. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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