MSNBC ‘Shocked’ at ‘Incredible’ Thought of NRA Gun Auctions at Schools

newsbusters.org ^ | 11/6/2019 | Alex Christie

[rktman]

Despite Beto O'Rourke's best efforts, it is still legal in the United States to buy and sell firearms. This constitutional fact, however, greatly unnerved MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday as she devoted an entire segment to gun auctions and raffles hosted by the NRA Foundation's charitable arm, Friends of the NRA, at schools. The very existence of these of these auctions where deemed "shocking" and "incredible" in various teases throughout the hour, but the truth is far less nefarious.

Washington Post reporter Beth Reinhard co-authored the source material and joined Ruhle to discuss. Ruhle began by quoting Reinhard's article, almost immediately proving her own fear mongering wrong, '"only a small fraction of Friends of the NRA events take place at schools and such activities are conducted with the input, support and coordination of local officials.'" Ruhle then asked Reinhard how she came to discover the events in question.

Reinhard said that she had received an e-mail from a Kentucky woman "who had come across a flier" and "was particularly upset because there had been a mass shooting just 80 miles away last year at another school in Western Kentucky." In other words, there was no evidence of anything nefarious going on, but the location somehow made it seem that way, which the Post then determined warranted an investigation.

[rktman]

Yawn. Perfectly legal when everyone is on board. Panty wad much?

[BBQToadRibs]

LOL, our local Catholic High School has a fund raising gun raffle every year.

[TLI]

which the Post then determined warranted an investigation.

Investigation?

Why?

There was a flier put out, just read it.

Or is that a bit too much like reading a transcript?

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[outpostinmass2]

My high school in the 80’s had a rifle club. We brought our rifles to school in the morning and kept them locked-up in the vice Principal’s office. After school we drove in a van to the gun range.

[Da Coyote]

Liberals are, at heart, such simpletons that one needs special definitions to adequately describe their stupidity.

[bk1000]

NRA gun auctions at schools as long as I can remember. Even back in the ‘70s. Big wup.

[mass55th]

I don’t see a problem. After all, Democrats hold political pep rallies at funerals.

[technically right]

I went to high school in the rural Midwest back in the 60’s. During bird hunting season nearly every vehicle in the student parking lot had a shotgun in it. The highlight of the week would be if someone had gotten a new gun. We’d all dash out to get a look at it.

[rktman]

Same in Albuquerque back then. Never an issue.

[48th SPS Crusader]

When I was in high school every truck and car on the parking lot (student and teacher had a gun or two in it during hunting season. No one pissed their pants, no one get shot, no one even paid attention!

[HotHunt]

When I was in high school in the mid-60s, guys used to carry rifles in gun racks in their pickup trucks in the school parking lot.

We also had a gun club that met and learned gun safety and practiced marksmanship and sharpshooting in the basement of the gym.

And at Boy Scout summer camp, we learned gun safety and marksmanship for a merit badge.

The only murder I remember was a former classmate who stabbed a college gal 10 times with a pocket knife outside a seedy hotel in downtown.

These media weenies still think guns are the problem when in fact, the crazies have always the problem.

[outpostinmass2]

I went to high school in a close-in suburb of Boston. People are always shocked when I relay this story.

[dsrtsage]

I have thought a few times about tossing a few boxes of cap guns and caps over the fence at the local elementary school. I bet the entire city would shut down and helicopters and swat teams would storm the school when an impromptu game of cowboys and indians broke out

[rktman]

Uh, someone might do some time in lock up. I suggest NOT doing that.

[backwoods-engineer]

Great. I'll support your point with another story: in OK in the 80's, when I was in high school, SEVERAL of us boys drove into the school parking lot regularly with shotguns and rifles in the gun racks of our pickup trucks.

One morning after a dove hunt, I rode to school in my buddy's truck with our shotguns in the rack. We got out, and were met by the Superintendent of Schools. What was his ONE QUESTION? Was it about the guns? NOPE. He wanted to know how many doves we shot!

[backwoods-engineer]

Yessir me too! See my previous post for a story.

[terycarl]

I went to high school in the rural Midwest back in the 60’s. During bird hunting season nearly every vehicle in the student parking lot had a shotgun in it. The highlight of the week would be if someone had gotten a new gun. We’d all dash out to get a look at it.

Amen.....I took a .22 rifle to 8th grade in Milwaukee to trade to another student for a quart jar full of .22 ammunition.....the principal, a priest, looked over our trades, o.k.'d the trade and advised us to put the stuff in our lockers...….today every cop in Milwaukee would be on the sight...….sigh!!!