Group Raffles Rifle to Benefit School

[Champ]

LAMPASAS, Texas - A local group is holding a school benefit raffle featuring a deer rifle, in hopes of raising enough money to fence in a portion of a school in this central Texas town.

"We're moms using guns as tools to protect our kids," said Marta Ellison, a member of the Hanna Springs Intermediate School Parent-Teacher-Student Organization and part of the trio of mothers that put the raffle together. They've set out to raise about $15,000.

"Bake sales are a thing of the past," she said.

Lampasas school Superintendent Carlton Tucker said he's gotten only one comment about the propriety of using guns to raise money for a school project.

"I'm not aware of any widespread concerns," Tucker told The Dallas Morning News for its Tuesday editions. "It appears to me to be generally supported. And knowing our PTSOs, they think long and hard about any project and would never do anything adverse to the best interest of our children."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=3&u=/ap/20041123/ap_on_fe_st/school_gun_raffle

[LSparkle]

1. How did I KNOW this would be in Texas?

Sheesh ...

[izzie]

2. Lets hope that does not go over seas.

They think we are nuts as it is.

[democracyindanger]

3. "Moms using guns as tools to protect our kids."

From deer, apparently.

Idiots.

[Massacure]

4. What's wrong with raffling a gun as long as the kids don't get it?

[Mr.Green93]

5. Trench coat included?