NPR: Shooting Ranges Are New Bowling Alleys?

[Kirk Freeman]

Yes, this article was actually on National Public Radio.

Even in the fury of this latest offensive on our rights, we are winning the cultural war.

The courts cannot go where the culture has not. Prof. G. Reynolds, University of Tennessee, School of Law.

Are Shooting Ranges The New Bowling Alleys? : NPR

 

[Leo]

I see it all the time at Applied Ballistics. Lots of couples, some on dates do a little target practice for something interesting to do.

 

[ludlow]

Wife and I have date days on Fridays. About once a month we like to hit the range before lunch.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I know NPR gets stereotyped as a liberal bastion, but most of their shows are pretty even handed. Its not all Tavis Smiley.

A New Era: Modern Hunting Lures A Younger Pack : NPR

I remember this story about women and the younger crowd engaging in hunting as sport or for sustenance and it was really well done. I have an uncle who taught Hunter's Ed in Kentucky for decades until health issues forced him to the sidelines for a bit, and thought it was really interesting that Oregon has programs geared specifically for women.

It makes you feel a bit more secure about gun rights in the future. The more people who engage in the shooting sports, the more people with a dog in the fight, the better our "lobbying bloc" does.

 

[Glockowner]

I am an NPR fan, glad to see they are shining a light on the non-scary truth about the average gun owners.

 

[cobber]

To Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based organization focused on gun control, shooting ranges are dangerous — in more ways than one.
Asked what he thinks about shooting ranges becoming the new bowling alleys in America, Sugarmann says, "Bowling alleys pose no lethal threat to participants; shooting ranges pose a risk to users." He cites VPC studies on the relationships between shooting ranges and suicide, other fatal gun incidents and lead contamination.

Someone needs to turn in his man-card, if he ever had one...


I'm sure there's a study somewhere that relates the VPC and undescended testes.