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USAF Apologizes for Advertising Gun Range 'Fun Shoot' on MLK Day
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 15 January 2016 | ANTON NILSSON

Posted on 01/17/2016 1:00:58 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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Air Force apologizes for advertising a 'fun shoot' at range on Martin Luther King Day using image of murdered civil rights leader

- The controversial poster advertised a skeet shoot at an Air Force base in Georgia

- The flyer promised attendees would get 'two rounds and lunch' for $20 and featured a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Air Force officials issued a statement apologizing for the 'insensitive' flyer

Officials at an Air Force base in Georgia drew criticism on Thursday after posting controversial flyers advertising a 'Martin Luther King, Jr. fun shoot' featuring a picture of the civil rights leader, who was gunned down in 1968.

The flyers announced a gathering at the Robins Air Force Base Skeet Club scheduled for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. For $20, the poster promised, attendees would get 'two rounds and lunch.'

The Air Force base, which is located in the town of Warner Robins in central Georgia, released a statement on Thursday apologizing for the poster, calling it 'inappropriate' and an 'honest mistake.'

'We didn't make the flyer,' Leroy Minus told the newspaper. 'We squared it away. We got rid of the picture.'

In the conclusion of the Air Force base's statement officials said they 'hold the legacy of Dr. King in the highest regard.'

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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: BenLurkin

Give me a break....it’s not like they were shooting at the pocture. What is the big deal? Fun is now verboten?


41 posted on 01/17/2016 2:36:58 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Tax-chick
If there was a target on his face then I would agree with you. I'm just too old to care about this pc crap. However, I can understand your point of view. I tend to give people the benefit of doubt, I just think the USAF made a mistake in naming the event.
42 posted on 01/17/2016 2:47:22 PM PST by Do the math (Doug)
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To: Do the math

I don’t think holding the event would have been a mistake, just that the poster shown was poorly designed.

As someone suggested above, they could have had a Lee-Jackson Day event. That was a holiday when I was a girl in Virginia.


43 posted on 01/17/2016 2:49:17 PM PST by Tax-chick (Onions are a woman's weapon.)
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To: W.

Ten or fifteen years ago there was a (real) photo circulating, showing a sign on the wall of a drug store, wishing all African-American patrons well on MLK Day—taped to the wall right over a display of bags of cotton balls.


44 posted on 01/17/2016 2:50:41 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: DogByte6RER

For the last several years, a few friends and I open a bottle of Rebel Yell bourbon, and raise glasses to Marse Robert. It’s all we can do in the face of the despicable revisionism that’s occurring these days.


45 posted on 01/17/2016 4:14:02 PM PST by VR-21
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To: DogByte6RER

At $10 a round, they ought to be at least 20mm rounds, even if it is MLK on the target.


46 posted on 01/17/2016 4:31:11 PM PST by PAR35
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To: DogByte6RER

Just what we need.....a sensitive Air Force. That’ll really scare our enemies.....


47 posted on 01/17/2016 5:05:40 PM PST by wny
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To: Arthur McGowan

Target Stores to Stop Selling Cotton–Made Products Due to Crop’s Role in Slavery

http://clashdaily.com/2014/05/target-stores-stop-selling-cotton-made-products-due-crops-role-slavery/

(yes, it’s satire)


48 posted on 01/17/2016 5:12:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SoFloFreeper

Lucy Liu, yummy!


49 posted on 01/17/2016 5:23:49 PM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Yeah, I saw that and have it saved on my other laptop! Ha, ha, I mean, whoops!


50 posted on 01/17/2016 5:30:23 PM PST by W. (Hang on a munute.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Double oops. I got it ass-backwards. Sheesh. Tomorrow’s a new day...


51 posted on 01/17/2016 5:44:14 PM PST by W. (Hang on a munute.)
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To: DogByte6RER; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; ...

Chuck Norris on King and guns

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/what-most-dont-know-about-mlk-jr-and-his-guns/


52 posted on 01/18/2016 2:51:22 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

ROFL! That was not a smart thing to do.

But hey ... a Ground Zero Victory Mosque, now that’s a great idea!

/s

9/11 plane’s landing gear found wedged ‘by Ground Zero Mosque’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3012961/posts

Either Trump or Cruz ought to bring that one up.


53 posted on 01/19/2016 5:02:56 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Cruz and Trump FRiends strongest when we don't insult each other.)
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To: Impy

Emilio.


54 posted on 01/19/2016 5:03:06 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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Martin Loofah King

Martin Loofah King

55 posted on 04/17/2016 5:23:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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