Michele Sharpe
1 min readFeb 20, 2018

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Yes, I read the article, but to me, it did not frame NRA in a positive light because my brain is a slave to analogy and deduction.

High schools have driver’s education classes. Cars (or people driving cars, if you like) kill people, but their main purpose is transportation. The purpose of driver’s education is to increase safety and decrease accidents.

This high school had a shooting class , at least in part because the NRA funded it. Guns (or people shooting guns) kill people, but their main purpose is . . . killing and wounding. The purpose of the shooting class was to increase shooting accuracy, and the NRA funded class made Cruz a better shooter. His classmates remarked on his skill. Was this skill what made it possible for him to pick off 17 people in five minutes? Or could anyone using a gun of the type he used accomplish that? I don’t think either of these options reflects well on the NRA.

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Michele Sharpe
Michele Sharpe

Written by Michele Sharpe

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