Band boosters' gun raffle drawing fire
A booster group for a high school on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is raising money for a band trip with what a school safety group calls a "highly inappropriate" raffle of guns and ammunition.
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A booster group for a high school on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is raising money for a band trip with what a school safety group calls a "highly inappropriate" raffle of guns and ammunition.
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) -- A booster group for a high school on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is raising money for a band trip with what a school safety group
A Mississippi high school booster group has launched what a school safety group calls a “highly inappropriate” fundraiser to pay for a band trip to Florida. The fundraiser — “30 guns in 30 days” — awards a gun or other weapon every day for a month. Proceeds will help send the West Harrison High School band on the trip. Raffle organizer Janean Murphy declined an interview with The Sun Herald. A statement said the raffle was put together “by a group of like minded people." A school safety Facebook group says it's inappropriate in light of the shooting that killed 19 child...
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