Story today on womens sports injuries in cheerleading reveals a startling rate of injuries, both catastrophic, permanant and fatal, with most injuries at the College level. The injury and death rate is higher for cheerleading than football. Baseball, lacrosse, swimming, tennis and golf also very risky.
16,ooo injuries a year to women in cheerleading. No, I did NOT put too many zeros on that.
The rate for collegiate competitive shooting? Zero. What do you think the injury rate for shooting pistols with Breda is? It's in NEGATIVE numbers.
That's as in: none. Null. Less than .000%
For heavens sake get your kid into a Junior State Rifle team program pronto! Or at least 4-H! Any kid with an assault rifle, a smallbore pistol and several hundred rounds of ammo is safer than some girl with braces and pom-poms! Give them sunblock and some hi-cap mags. Forget those tennis raquets and softball gloves!
Remember the Kid? First time TSRA Junior shooter at Camp Perry. 10 days with a couple thousand heavily armed people around him. Came home without a scuff and learned to run his own firing point and target. He was safer than he was at home riding around the neighborhood on a skateboard. That's the ticket, right there.
Update: Yeah!
5 comments:
You gotta get cuter shooting outfits. Girls become cheerleaders because of BOYS, because of the pom-poms & those swingy little skirts. That's why they're willing to do it even though they may get hurt. So you gotta let 'em be CUTE when they're shooting.
That's not a bad idea.
Do it for the children !
Well, Smith, the Mrs. came shooting with me last weekend, and she looked particularly fetching in her Kalashnikitty T-shirt.
;-)
Ted - :) I'm sure she did. That's because she's a grown woman, and is dealing with men, not boys. You just gotta convince those 16 year olds.
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