Iraq vet questions youth football gun raffle in PA

[Pat McCotter]

Iraq vet questions youth football gun raffle
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Aug 8, 2008 7:38:18 EDT
   
MILLERSTOWN, Pa. — An Iraq war veteran says a youth football league in central Pennsylvania is using inappropriate prizes in a raffle fundraiser: rifles.

David Diaz, who served two years in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division, said he doesn't want his 9-year-old daughter, a cheerleader, to sell tickets for the October nightly raffle.

"It doesn't seem right that we are using guns to raise money so they can play football," Diaz said.

The money from the sale of the $10 raffle tickets will go to the Greenwood-Newport Midget Football Association, which puts on games with children ages 5 to 13.

Pat Dorman, the association vice president, said she didn't see a problem with a rifle as an attention-getting prize.

"People hunt; guns are not just used for violence," Dorman said. "We want to attract the people to buying the tickets."

Winners can receive cash if they don't want a rifle. Ticket holders must be 18 to win a rifle, and receive it through a participating gun store that satisfies all legal requirements including background checks, she said.

It is legal for children to sell tickets for a gun raffle. But children can't win the rifle or present it to the winner, said Perry County District Attorney Charles Chenot.

[Puke]

Sounds like he is doing what he should.
Don't allow your kid to sell the tickets and then fuck off.

[J’raxis 270145]

Sounds like he is doing what he should.
Don't allow your kid to sell the tickets and then fuck off.

Except the whole "creating a news story the gun-grabbers will have a field day with" part.

[Puke]

Except the whole "creating a news story the gun-grabbers will have a field day with" part.

Yeah, the news tards will make it out to be a bad thing. But I can't really fault anyone for telling their story.
In the end it's the newspaper that chooses what story to print.

[Search4Lancer]

If anything, I can't believe someone has a problem with it in Perry County, of all places. For those of you not familiar with south central PA... Perry County is like our own little stereotypical West Virginia.

Hell, they got their first traffic light only a couple of years ago!