▲ 358 ▼ Sniper took picture of Trump rally shooter, saw him use rangefinder before assassination attempt, source says (www.cbsnews.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 89 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 children) That's so stupid, isn't that kinda what school clubs are for permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago I'm not commenting on whether that's true or not, but it isn't how it works in the south. If you want to play high school soccer or whatever, you have to quality by doing well in middle school. Some places, middle school is competitive enough to warrant tryouts. Extracurriculars are also rapidly getting more expensive. Too many parents want to pretend their kids are in the NFL or NBA or whatever. permalink fedilink source parent [–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm just relaying what I read in the news. I agree that it's dumb for a club (as opposed to a competitive rifle "team") to be like that, but it's allegedly what happened nonetheless. permalink fedilink source parent [–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago If you break Range rules, you get 86ed permalink fedilink source parent
[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago I'm not commenting on whether that's true or not, but it isn't how it works in the south. If you want to play high school soccer or whatever, you have to quality by doing well in middle school. Some places, middle school is competitive enough to warrant tryouts. Extracurriculars are also rapidly getting more expensive. Too many parents want to pretend their kids are in the NFL or NBA or whatever. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm just relaying what I read in the news. I agree that it's dumb for a club (as opposed to a competitive rifle "team") to be like that, but it's allegedly what happened nonetheless. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago If you break Range rules, you get 86ed permalink fedilink source parent