Dwight Springthorpe learned how to shoot out of necessity. Growing up in rural North Carolina, his parents’ farm was plagued with coyotes. Springthorpe learned gun safety and marksmanship from his father. And, he says, he was pretty effective in keeping the coyotes off his family’s land.
Now a senior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Springthorpe continues to shoot for sport as president of the Tar Heel Rifle and Pistol Club (THRPC). For college students to participate in a gun club – or even work on their own to start one – seems almost an anachronism, antithetical to the political correctness of the academic world.
But, as HUMAN EVENTS found, it’s a lot more common than most of the academic world would have us believe for one reason: students value their Second Amendment rights and are willing to work to protect them...
I think this is a great idea.
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Why would it seem “an anachronism, antithetical to the political correctness of the academic world” unless one assumes that the minority of talking heads on the New York and D.C. media circuits are somehow representative of more than they actually are?
The culture of a university is predicated on the culture of the people who comprise it. So, universities with students and faculties from more rural and agrarian areas are more likely to include hunting in their campus culture than universities with students and faculties from large, urban areas. Central Park in New York isn't exactly open during hunting season...anymore.
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