I agree, shooting sports have been brushed under the rugs at high schools, as bad and not needed and of course.... Oh my, your teaching a child how to be a killer!
Both my Daughters shot in high school and the youngest got a ride to Penn State to shoot on their team. The older would rather swim than shoot any more and thats OK, but she knows how and knows firearms safety.
One school board meeting I went to when they were trying to get rid of the rifle team, someone got up and was all but crying about how horrible guns were and how many kids would be killed or injured if this were allowed to continue.
Some very interesting facts came out of that meeting, with written facts in hand a young woman that had shot in school, and was at that time in law school. Showed that in NO OTHER IN SCHOOL ACTIVITY, the kids involved were placing higher in academics, less criminal interactivity with the police, less likely to get knocked up, and so one and so on, and more likely to attend collage that in any other.
I think that has a lot to do with their home life more than school, but the point is thay had guns at home, and they had parents that loved them.
Good on your for hosting the show
