The connection between the military, the NRA, and America's kids?

The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program and the Civilian Marksmanship Program -

The CMP is a little-known congressionally mandated organization. It was set up in 1903. It’s the Civilian Marksmanship Program. After the Spanish-American War in 1898, military planners were shocked that American youth just couldn’t shoot as straight as they’d hoped. And so Congress instituted this program in order to teach children how to shoot.

And that program exists today. The Civilian Marksmanship Program regulates the JROTC marksmanship program. Oftentimes, when schools are having difficult times keeping their program afloat, the CMP will communicate with the NRA, and grants will be filled out, and the individual JROTC program will outfitted with guns and ammunition.

More here - https://fair.org/home/they-put-lethal-weapons-into-the-hands-of-13-year-olds/

This precisely why I never want armed forces to be allowed into public schools.