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.
Several other charity gun raffles around the country have been cancelled over the past few weeks after protests and hate mail.
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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