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Trump Shooter Crooks Wasn’t on Rifle Team or Bullied, According to School
(www.thedailybeast.com)
Why the fuck is there a rifle team in school?????
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Yes, but was he in the John Wilkes Booth after-school fan club?
A high school rifle team? What the what?
Yeah, it's a thing.
Rifle teams, trap shooting teams are not all that uncommon, all funded by your friends in the NRA.
All I can say is I never heard of such a thing growing up in Indiana. And I graduated high school before Columbine. Giving kids rifles at schools now, even if they're being monitored, seems nuts.
High schools in Nevada with HSJROTC programs had rifle teams. My high school had a range and I believe that they used .22s in competion, but for class we used air rifles. There was a gun safety training and written testing you had to pass and then those who were allowed to participate could fire during class during the module (only juniors and seniors, freshmen and sophomores did not get this module). I remember the Colonel was the only one who had a key to the lockers for rifles and the ammunition was kept in a separate locked locker. It was a fun unit! For reference, I graduated in 2000.
If I remember correctly, those who opted out were given other work or allowed to work on unfinished classwork.
I don’t know if they still do this though.
JROTC makes sense. My high school didn't have it.
I grew up in the Glorious People's Republic of Texas and was in highschool in the 90s. We had a variety of projectile-based clubs: rifle, trap shooting, and archery.
I may or may not have learned how to bow hunt as part of a school club.
However, uh, yeah, I don't think I'd give a bunch of kids guns at this point either.
I would have loved archery as an extracurricular when I was in school.
Me too! My parents got me a kids' size longbow and a couple of arrows (real wooden ones, not suction cups or whatever) as a present and I made a target in the yard and shot (badly) at it all the time. I'd love to have learned real archery.
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My school would claim I was never bullied, too, and it would be a lie.
I think they just denied the fact that he was on the rifle team, because they didn't want it on record that their team would have missed.
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Exactly. Especially if the administration was bully-friendly, which they often are. My daughter was so bullied at her middle school that we ended up having to take her out and put her in online school because the administration didn't give a shit. The one time we went so apoplectic that they were forced to act, they made the bullies apologize to her and her apologize to the bullies. Which, of course, made things worse.
One of my daughter's best friends is still in that school and he is trans. Some girl was harassing him and being incredibly bigoted to him and he finally turned around and slapped her for it. Guess which one of them got suspended and which one wasn't even finger-wagged at? Hint: it wasn't the girl that got suspended.
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Why does the guy have to have been bullied? Maybe he just really hated a convicted criminal, rapist, draft dodger, supected pedophile, treasonous, and otherwise all-around garbage human being and thought the world didn't need as many of those as it has.
Just because someone made an attempt on that orange clown's life doesn't give the horse's ass a pass at being an all-around shit heel.
Fuck that fat piece of shit.
All the evidence points to him just doing it for the sake of committing a shooting though. He was looking up random political events, seemingly to find the closest one, regardless of party.
So you're saying we nearly managed to get rid of Trump accidentally?
No, he definitely wanted to kill Trump. But if Biden were holding a rally that day, it just as easily could’ve been him. At least that’s what the initial evidence seems to be saying
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Careful. Statements like that could break up your band.
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I don't think small school clubs usually keep detailed long-term records, so that's not saying much
If they'd als my school, they would go: who? Look up a file and say: nah he was never bullied.
I love that in the current age if someone isn't blasting every aspect of their life onto social media we have no idea what to do with them.
In case the whole "hit a wall while trying to aim at a target on a different wall" story didn't seem strange, the school has now confirmed he never tried out for the team. Also worth pointing out that many students interviewed said he was just a quiet kid who was not bullied, but the click-worthy headlines came from the kids who said he was bullied.
I have 2 middle schooler/high schoolers. Kids are not going to admit to bullying nor know who is being bullied if it's not them doing the bullying or being bullied. They are all way too self involved at those ages.
Fair point on the bullying. But the shooting team claim was always absurd
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