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Hunter Safety and Archery · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, second day
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of August. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me, zipping on through this
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week, kicking off this month, and zipping right on through it. Man.
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We're two days deep already, aren't we? And into Wednesday. A
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couple things that I want to talk about today. First and foremost, we
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have some concern in the state of Alabama. I think rightfully so as even
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and this is a bipartisan issue for the elected representatives in the state of Alabama.
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Even Democrat Representative ry Sewell has been started this week being very vocal with
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her negative opinion about a decision made by our president this Remember, we were
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all set for Space Command for the United States to be in Huntsville, Alabama.
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That was a Trump era decision. That was the idea moved the headquarters
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to Huntsville, Alabama. There was a lot of research, there was a
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lot of discussion done about it. There were a number of reasons why ultimately
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Huntsville became the decision. And basically the White House has made a decision that
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no, this will now headquarters will be in Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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That's the decision. That's what was decided. And the Alabama representative Seols
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said this basically that this was bipartisan. Now, I wanted to the statement
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here from the chair for the House Arm Services Committee, Mike Rogers, also
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from Alabama, showing the bipartisanship of we have two folks from Alabama sounding off
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on this, but this was a statement from Mike Rogers. It's clear that
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far left politics and not national security, was a driving force behind this decision.
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The Biden administration's shameful delay to finalize the permanent basing decision for US based
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Command warranted the opening of a congressional investigation. I will continue this investigation to
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see if they intentionally misled the Armed Services Committee on their deliberate, taxpayer funded
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manipulation of the selection process. I will continue to hold the Biden administration accountable
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for their egregious political meddling in our national security. This fight is far from
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over, so the question becomes an issue of why why Colorado Springs. John
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Kirby, the National Security Advisor, says the deciding factor for President Biden keeping
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deciding to keep space commanding Colorado Springs was operational readiness, pure and simple.
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However, when the original work was done during the Trump administration, Colorado Springs
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wasn't even in the top three. This is not the decision that was recommended
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Back to a Representative. Seoul who Yes, Democrat Alabama's seventh congressional district said
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in her statement, Huntsville's merits won the selection process fair and square. In
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three separate reports, Huntsville reigned victorious. Colorado did not come in second or
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third. This reversal is as shameful as it is disappointing, and she went
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on to say I expected more from the Biden administration. A decision of this
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magnitude should not be about red state versus blue state, but rather what is
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best for national security, and most of the indications are that it was in
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the best interest of national security for Huntsville. We'll continue to see where this
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goes. Obviously harsh words from both of them, Mike Rogers saying that investigation
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needed to take place. So is this one of those deals where moving it
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to a blue state just for the sake of moving it to a blue state
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punishing a red state, or is this one of those situations where you talk
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about moving it because this was a Trump decision, something that happened under the
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Trump administration. So again we'll see how it all plays out. We got
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another decision here that was made by the Biden administration. This is out of
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the Education Department, and this relates to training as it pertains to school funding
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of training for archery and hunting programs, saying that they can't receive federal funding.
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So here's the way all of this sort of went down, and a
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couple couple points to make on this. So twenty twenty one, the Elementary
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and Secondary Education Act of nineteen sixty five amended, and the idea was that
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it would prevent federal funding to schools as it related to training in the use
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of dangerous weapons. Okay, that was the idea and pushing it through it
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was aimed to promote this is a quote, safer and more inclusive and positive
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school environments for all students, educators, and school staff. This coming from
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Education Department's press release. Ultimately, this bipartisan's Safer Communities Act was passed in
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the House two thirty four to one ninety three and in the Senate sixty five
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thirty three you do the math, you can see there were Republicans that crossed
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lines to support this, and they were concerned after shootings that took place in
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Texas, New York and others. So, but specifically Uvaldi and Buffalo,
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I guess we're the two that sort of led to this. Now here's where
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we start getting into some questions, because basically you have Republicans now saying that
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by cutting funding for these programs for archery or for various shooting sports and training,
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firearms safety and others, that it's misconstruing the language of this particular bill,
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of this particular thing that was passed and that many Republicans cross party lines
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to vote on. So this takes us to a point where you have to
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question a few things, not being able to see a big picture. And
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I think that's part of this is always concerns when we hear about this desire
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to implement common sense gun laws, changes that are common sense. We always
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hear that, and there's never a real explanation for it. I have friends
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who constantly throw around this, well, they have to get common sense gun
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laws, and at all it's a very vague, and it's intentionally vague thing
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and who doesn't want common sense. We could say common sense would apply to
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a number of things. Why don't we have common sense laws as it pertains
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to biological men not competing in women's sports. That would be a common sense
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decision, right. That's using your brain and not your heart. I understand
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there are people that want trans athletes to be able to compete in the particular
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class of which they are now a member. I get that. That's thinking
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with your heart, not thinking with your head. Your head would tell you
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there's going to be a pretty clear advantage. We saw that with Leah Thomas
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in the pool. We saw the impact that Leah Thomas had on other swimmers.
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We've seen it happen a few times. I'll even cite this is a
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reference point. How about the fact that Canada now out of the World Cup.
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But Canada as on their team a trans athlete. But it's a woman
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who's transitioning to be a man competing on the women's soccer team. Why is
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that? What could possibly be the reason for a man the first? And
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they celebrated this is the first ever trans athlete competing in a World Cup.
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Okay, so it's a woman who's competed as a woman and is now competing
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on the team as a man. So why is that Based on what we're
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hearing about Leah Thomas and some other athletes, shouldn't this particular trans athlete.
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I don't have her first name in firm. Her last name is Quinn,
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his last name, their last name. It's a they situation. So Quinn
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is competing in the women or was competing in the women's World Cup. They're
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out. They were eliminated by Australia the other day, was competing as a
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man in the women's World Cup. Not a lot of outrage there, and
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I think this is probably one of those decisions where that's probably the right decisi
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But based on all the complaints and all the things that we heard about,
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why Leah Thomas should be competing as a female swimmer, shouldn't Quinn be forced
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to try out for the Canadian men's team? Would Quinn make the team?
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That's a question. I don't know. I think we probably have some sort
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of an idea, but I digress. All right, So back to the
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decisions here. Being able to see things big picture, common sense gun laws,
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that's what took me down that path, wasn't it common sense common sense?
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Doesn't that make common sense? So common sense gun laws? People want
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them, and then they say it and they say it needs to be common
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sense. Well, we have different perspectives on what's common sense, don't we
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Some people say common sense gun laws are the ones that the Founders made it
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a point to say, we have God given rights to protect ourselves from others,
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including an oppressive, overreaching government. Was part of what their vision was
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because they said, at some point, this is going to have to happen.
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That's the way the founders viewed it. They didn't call them radical.
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They didn't call well, they probably did. They were a radical thing.
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They weren't radicalized fascists, I guess is what they didn't called. But anyway,
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so what do these programs do in schools? They teach kids gun safety,
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firearms safety, arrow bow and arrow safety, archery safety. I guess
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that's the better word, isn't it. Thousands of children developing life skills,
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self esteem. That's specifically what hunter education classes. Okay, we've heard repeatedly
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that the idea of hunters having weapons isn't the problem. That's what we've heard.
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We've heard that over and over again. It's not about the hunters.
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It's about the people who want these dangerous assault rifles. These AAR fifteens you
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know that are assault rifles, which isn't what are stands for. But that's
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what we have problems with. Okay, So if it's not about the hunters,
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why would you cut funding for programs that ultimately are about hunter education?
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Archery? I mean people that are hunting with a bow and arrow. That's
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a whole different skill set altogether. Are we looking at the possibility that someone
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will take a bow and arrow and try to commit a mass shooting? Is
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that one of the concerns They didn't differentiate. They didn't say, Hey,
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we're not going to help educate people how to safely use a firearm, but
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we'll help them learn how to safely use a bow and arrow. Are they
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coming for the bow and arrows? I don't know. I don't know.
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Is that something that they're going to come after? It would be bows and
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arrows, wouldn't it. Are they going to come for those? I don't
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know. I don't think that's what the big picture is. But you have
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to look at the big picture, and that's why it's so disappointing to know
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that We had so many Republicans who got caught up in this common sense stuff,
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and they just thought, well, we don't want anybody in schools teaching
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everybody how to how to use weapons that could be used turned on American citizens.
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We can't do that. We can't possibly do that. That passed.
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Not a lot of uproar about that, right, I mean, some people
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didn't even realize that it went through, right, a lot of people.
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Right now, we're going to wait a minute, what is this. They're
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not going to let kids learn gun safety at school. When it comes to
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hunting and bows and arrows, they're not going to teach that as after school
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because shooting, oh, it's a sport. Those are sports shooting things we're
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talking about, and hunter safety course, helping people understand the proper way to
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handle a firearm so that there's not an accident, the proper way to store
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firearms so that there's not an accident, the proper way to help keep people
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safe, have education and learn and hopefully prevent accidental shootings from taking place.
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See, the accidents that might happen because of this aren't even the same kind
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of things that we're talking about when we talk about common sense gun laws because
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again, they're not focused on hunters. That's not who they're concerned with.
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Who are they concerned with. They're concerned with somebody with a mental instability that
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somehow manages to get their hands on a weapon and start shooting people. We
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could do more for helping the mental illness at preventing these problems than we can
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by shutting down hunter safety classes. Teaching people to wear an orange vest when
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they're out in the woods, God forbid, they know how to keep themselves
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safe. Don't dangle a white handkerchief out of your pocket when you're out during
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deer season. You don't do that little basic things that just makes sense.
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Then I get taught that no, no, no, this is a misrepresentation
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of specifically what these programs and what the funding that was being pulled is what
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some of the Republican Senators John Cornin of Texas, Tom Tillis of North Carolina
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basically begging Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, saying it's a misrepresentation of the b SCA
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provision as it pertains to school funding. We are alarmed to learn recently that
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the Department of Education is miss interpreted the BCSA to require the defunding of certain
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longstanding educational and enrichment programs, specifically archery and hunter education classes for thousands of
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children who rely on these programs to develop life skills, learn firearms safety,
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and build self esteem. That coming from the Senators, the Department mistakenly believes
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the b SCA precludes funding these enrichment programs. Such an interpretation contradicts congressional intent
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and the text of the BSCA. So a lot of people saying, hey,
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this is about taking away guns. Period. Again, we had Republicans
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in there voting the other way, not realizing big picture where this was going.
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I can't imagine that they see this and say this is what we hoped
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would happen. So what happens. What is the backlash on them? What
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is the ultimate pushback against them? There should be something right for at least
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not or they should at least have an opportunity to say, hey, I
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didn't see this coming, but you have to, don't you You can't.
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It's the whole given inch take a mile. That's the way it's always been.
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And when they come along and they say we want to take away assault
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rifles or they say we want to take away machine guns. Machine guns aren't
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readily available to just anybody who wants to get their hands on a machine gun,
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right. Automatic weapons are not easy to get your hands on, special
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licensing for those. It's not automatic weapons that have an impact on these But
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they want these mass shootings. But they want this perception, don't they They
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want the perception that it's automatic weapons. They want to throw around a sault
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rifle because they know that people will misunderstand what AR stands for. I think
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many of them don't understand what AR stands for, so they say that's what
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they want to take away. They don't want to take away pistols, they
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don't want to take away shotguns. They just want to take away the scary
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looking rifles, the ones that are maybe black painted black, or maybe they
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have that real scary looking magazine or clip as they like to call it.
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They think that that is the problem and if they could just get rid of
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the AAR weapons, that would make a big difference, wouldn't it. They
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certainly aren't going to come for anything else. But that's the thing, right,
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This funding gave them an opportunity to take this away, to take this
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away from giving hunter safety classes from giving kids an opportunity to learn and participate
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in some of these shooting sports as they are making their way through school,
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and it takes away ultimately, a big picture takes away safety, takes away
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that education of understanding firearms safety. So Republicans trying to say whoa wa,
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whoa, whoa whoa back it up. We'll see if they make any progress.
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