It was about 30 days of raffles for which students, teachers and administrative staff of the center were invited. Photo: Pixabay
One week after Texas elementary school shooting in which twenty children and teachers died, a Florida high school concluded this Wednesday, June 1 its annual raffle of rifles, pistols and hunting equipment.
Since last May 4, those responsible for the James Madison High Schoolfrom the city of Madisonin the north of the State, have raffled thirty firearms and various hunting material every day.
“It’s all for the boys,” said this Wednesday, June 1, the director of the Florida center, Mark Akermanduring the broadcast on Facebook of the last draw, which, he explained, was once again very “successful”.
The “grand prize” of the draw, whose winner was revealed this Wednesday, was a Browning A5 Sweet 16 rapid cycle shotgunspecially designed for bird hunting.
But the center of this rural area of Florida He also raffled shotguns with telescopic sights, short pistols, ammunition, thermal binoculars, a fish finder or a modern crossbow.
It was about 30 days of raffles for which students, teachers and administrative staff of the center were invited. Each ballot had a cost of USD 100 and the maximum limit was 600 ballots sold.
This draw was interrupted by the massacre at robb elementary schoolof UvaldeTexas, where 19 children and two teachers died on May 24.
Akerman he suspended the draws the following day “out of respect for these tragic events”, although they were resumed days later.
However, the draw did not stop when on May 14 a shooting in the New York town of Buffaloin which 10 people died, most African Americans.
With a small drum that was handled by the vice principal of the school, Patrick Whiteresponsible for drawing the ballots with the names of the winners, this Tuesday, May 30, the raffles were resumed and the lucky ones who had taken the weapons and hunting elements that could not be raffled due to the texas shooting.
According to the raffle poster, the participants had to “comply with all regulations” federal and Florida, where for weapons that do not require a special license you don’t even need to go through a background check.
White concluded the raffle by thanking the participants because this raffle “helped the school, which really needs it.”