Parents raffle off gun for graduation party fundraiser

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 7:07 pm, Thursday, March 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of parents raffling off a gun to support a Maine high school graduation celebration is receiving backlash online.

WGME-TV reports the group is raffling off a 9mm handgun that a parent donated to raise money for Project Graduation at Hodgdon High School. Sporting goods store owner and parent Michelle Crane promoted the raffle on her Facebook page last month.

Crane says all laws apply in the raffle and that the winner must pass a background check. She says the group has raffled off guns before.

Some Facebook users say the raffle is insensitive to the families of students killed in recent school shootings in Florida and Maryland.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Parents-raffle-off-gun-for-graduation-party-12775040.php

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. graduation?

Gee, why didn't they do this for the kindergartners? The gun would last the winner through to graduation, or until the next AR-15 owner goes berserk.


I don't know what they're thinking. Graduates need handguns now?

[BigmanPigman]

2. Don't give them any new ideas.

I am sure they would love pre-schoolers playing with real guns for "experience". This is why this country is viewed as a bunch of idiots (look who was not really elected as the fake prez) by other countries.

[Cal Carpenter]

5. It's a raffle fundraiser

So I think the idea is that parents and other community members buy tickets to win things like movie passes and gift certificates and, in this case, a freaking gun, and the money raised supports the graduation party. I don't think the idea is that the gun is for a graduate.

[marble falls]

3. Tone deaf adults.

[hunter]

4. Gun fetishes are disgusting.