The gun raffle, in aid of the Upper Sandusky Rams Track and Field, has been so popular that this week the organizers added a fifth gun to the prize list and on Wednesday announced all 500 $10 tickets have been sold.
You mean they’re raffling things people want?
The guns on offer include a Savage 93R17 bolt-action rifle with scope, a Mossberg Patriot 350 Legend, two Tisas 1911 handguns, and an AR-15 rifle.
Muh scary AR-15
The raffle comes in the same week as a former student used an AR-15 style weapon along with two other guns during a mass shooting that left three children and three adults dead at Covenant School in Nashville on Monday.
Notice how they have to say “ar-15” style weapon… it’s like saying an automatic fire style weapon, it means it actually isn’t but we want to ban gun so it’s “close”
The AR-15, dubbed “America’s Rifle” by the National Rifle Association in 2016, has been used in many of the highest-profile mass shootings over the last decade or so, including the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed 27 lives; the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando that left 49 dead; the Route 91 Harvest music festival shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 that killed 58 people, and the Parkland school shooting in 2018 that claimed 17 lives.
And banning ARs would have “saved” 339 lives over 15 years by your own retarded liberals estimate. Are we going to ban beds higher than 1 feet to stop the thousands that have died falling out of bed in that same timeframe?
Some local residents were angry at the “idiotic” decision to raffle off firearms to support students at a time when mass shootings are at an all-time high.
“Nothing says ‘I support track’ like a shiny new murder gun,” Nick Barnes, an Upper Sandusky resident who runs a food truck, wrote on Facebook, telling VICE News that he found the raffle “nauseating.”
Insert opinion of someone who has zero knowledge of guns and probably gets his opinions from places like Vice.
But apart from the anger online, there was really “no pushback at all from the general public,” Barnes told VICE News. “For most people around here, the optics and the real-life consequences are simply beyond their scope of reckoning. There are a small minority who are appalled, but as you saw with the Nazis, we end up being seen as the troublemakers.”
Yes, they managed to compare raffling an AR15 with Nazis…
You mean they’re raffling things people want?
Muh scary AR-15
Notice how they have to say “ar-15” style weapon… it’s like saying an automatic fire style weapon, it means it actually isn’t but we want to ban gun so it’s “close”
And banning ARs would have “saved” 339 lives over 15 years by your own retarded liberals estimate. Are we going to ban beds higher than 1 feet to stop the thousands that have died falling out of bed in that same timeframe?
Insert opinion of someone who has zero knowledge of guns and probably gets his opinions from places like Vice.
Yes, they managed to compare raffling an AR15 with Nazis…
I like how the give the specifics on everything but the AR, too.
Quite possibly because it's chambered in a hunting round.