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Trump Shooter Crooks Wasn’t on Rifle Team or Bullied, According to School (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bethel Park High School officials have contradicted reports that Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was bullied, threatening, and a member of the school’s rifle team.
In updated statements posted Saturday, officials said they have “no record” of Crooks ever trying out or being dismissed from the rifle team due to character or performance concerns, as previously reported.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, it's a thing.

Rifle teams, trap shooting teams are not all that uncommon, all funded by your friends in the NRA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The Olympics have shooting in both the biathlon (rifle) and trap shooting so it's not as bizarre as some US gun things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

JROTC makes sense. My high school didn't have it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would have loved archery as an extracurricular when I was in school.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.