Youth baseball team moves forward with AR-15 raffle after Florida school shooting
NEOSHO, Mo. — A Missouri youth baseball team is moving ahead with a raffle of an AR-15 rifle despite criticism it received after a similar gun was used to kill 17 in a Florida high school. Coach Levi Patterson told the Kansas City Star the fundraiser for the third-grade team in Neosho, Missouri, had been planned before last week’s shooting in Parkland, Florida. He says his heart breaks for the shooting victims, but said gun raffles have been going on for years. […]