Grade-school cheerleaders asked to sell tickets for gun raffle: 'Our little girls should have nothing to do with it'

An annual fundraiser for an Ohio town’s youth football and cheerleading teams is making headlines after a concerned mom spoke out when her three daughters were asked to sell tickets for a gun raffle. This year’s second-place prize is a semi-automatic AM-15 rifle.

“I had the tickets laying there, I was watching the news, and they asked if these mass shootings were becoming a sport,” she said. “And I’m looking at these gun raffles that my little girls are supposed to sell, and I’m thinking, ‘This can’t be right.’” Robert Wooten, president of the New Richmond Junior Lions Football-Cheer Program, told Chilton that her daughters could opt out of selling the tickets. But the prize of a rifle will remain, as it has for the past four years. He told WCPO that the winner will be subject to an FBI background check.

Chilton’s story has elicited strong opinions on both sides of the gun control debate. Some praised the mom for speaking out.

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