Gun Range Moves in Next Door to School.....

[PegLeg45]

.....Boundless Hysteria Ensues.

Gun Range Moves in Next Door to School, Boundless Hysteria Ensues

http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/09/gun-range-moves-in-next-door-to-school-b

Rancho Cordova, California, students are up in arms—so to speak—about a gun range moving in next door to their high school. The range is indoor—no stray bullets will be pelting classroom windows—but students, teachers, and administrators all believe the mere presence of a gun club so close to a school is inherently dangerous.

Why?
I have no earthly idea.

The community's explanation is an insistent it just is!


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At least city authorities recognize that since the area is zoned as an industrial district, the gun range has every right to set up shop next to George Washington Carver High.

Case closed?

Not quite:

While the project goes forward, protesters’ concerns haven’t fallen on deaf ears as the city announced it will likely review its planning codes.

“We’ll be looking at the gun-related uses as well as well as other uses and compatibilities related to schools,” he said.

For the students and neighbors against the project, the hope is that planning codes change statewide.


It looks like the city will consider restricting future gun ranges, if not the one next to George Washington Carver High. The local news story spins this as a beneficial lesson in participatory democracy for the high schoolers. True enough, I suppose. If nothing else, they learned that when it comes to politics and governance, think-of-the-children paranoia trumps property rights every single time.

[dipisc]

Hi;

     I wonder how much illegal drugs are sold within the boundaries of that school , and is there any outrage on that issue there ?

     When that Range is firmly in place and running - it should offer free classes and some free shooting to the students from that school, then let the outrage subside.

[brushmore]

I heard they used to actually have gun ranges in schools once upon a time and maybe even still do in non-screwed up states.

[Timothy]

I heard they used to actually have gun ranges in schools once upon a time and maybe even still do in non-screwed up states.

When I first moved east, I shot 22 bulls-eye for Electric Boat divisions pistol team and their home range was in the basement of the local elementary school in Mystic Connecticut.

No one seem to have a problem with that 30 years ago!

The range I belong to a couple years back was across the street from an elementary school here in Massachusetts!  No one seems to have a problem with that either!

[tombogan03884]

In North Hampton NH the skeet range is next door to the middle school. both have been there for about 100 years with out any problems.

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[Hazcat]

St Petersburg Police Pistol Club  (public, not affiliated with the cops)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/1845+13th+Ave+N,+St+Petersburg,+FL+33713/@27.7855005,-82.6582945,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88c2e3d1ca6a9757:0xcaf800a7b2ae76fa

[GASPASSERDELUXE]

When I was in high school there was a rifle club with a range in the basement. Class of 1960.

[les snyder]

Hazcat... anecdote at the St Pete Police Pistol range... many years ago, I used to shoot a USPSA mini match there, and we would come outside for a break... out of the corner of my eye, I spotted an orange and black striped "rope" moving behind me.... my lizard brain immediately identified it as a tiger.... in the middle of St Petersburg..... I turned to find Hobbs, a tiger from the animal rescue across the road on his nightly walk with handler (on restraint)... at that point, I decided a 9mm was not large enough... though I have reconsidered

[Hazcat]

Hazcat... anecdote at the St Pete Police Pistol range... many years ago, I used to shoot a USPSA mini match there, and we would come outside for a break... out of the corner of my eye, I spotted an orange and black striped "rope" moving behind me.... my lizard brain immediately identified it as a tiger.... in the middle of St Petersburg..... I turned to find Hobbs, a tiger from the animal rescue across the road on his nightly walk with handler (on restraint)... at that point, I decided a 9mm was not large enough... though I have reconsidered

Interesting!  I never knew that such a rescue site existed there.  I doubt it is still there but I will 'scope it out' and let you know.

[Hazcat]

When I was in high school there was a rifle club with a range in the basement. Class of 1960.

I went to HS in a suburb north of Pittsburgh.  I was on the rifle team. Range was in the basement.  Class of 72.