The shooting team at Big Lake High School in Big Lake, Minnesota, will not be represented in the school’s yearbook because students and team members are holding guns in the photo.
Parents of the students are objecting to the ban of the photo which shows all 60 team members kneeling with a shotgun by their side.
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Rick Anderson, a parent whose son is on the shooting team, said, “Just because there’s a gun involved doesn’t make it a dangerous sport and they’re not criminals.” Anderson added, “I think [political] correctness has gone way overboard. I don’t know how else to put it.” Derek Birdsall said even parents without a son or daughter on the shooting team think the prohibition is ridiculous. He told ABC 5, “[The shooting team] is a school-sanctioned activity. It’s not like the kids are doing anything with it. They are literally just holding a gun.”
Superintendent Steve Westerberg admitted that parents have been pushing to have a photograph of the shooting team included in the yearbook but said the school’s student handbook “doesn’t allow firearms or weapons to be displayed.” He said the rule on displaying firearms “has been in affect [sic] since the school started sponsoring a Trap Shooting Team a couple years ago.” h/t breitbart
Birdsall views the ban as silly. He said the shotguns are “what you use in the sport. It’s just natural.”