Says who? Has that dipshit ever picked up a shotgun and tried to break a flying clay target?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
This is just a rationalization for denying publicity to shooting sports. Yes, it’s harder to be a gymnast, but we also have beach volley ball and other junk sports that the MSM gives lots of attention to that don’t require the level skill needed to shoot skeet.
I’d love to see these numbnuts try to break one! Or hand them a rifle and a benchrest and try to ring a gong at 800 yards! I was a trap/skeet competitor in college, we went through the same thing. We traveled to the National Collegiate Championships with a total funding of....$0. Every request from our group was turned down while there was plenty of money for the gay students assn, etc. The Chancellor and an Assistant to the dean of Engineering who were gun enthusiasts, paid our motel rooms, we paid for our own ammo, guns, food, and gas, drove our own cars. Even with this we managed to win the Team Trapshooting Championship once, and I was once 8th in International Trap (out of 445). The top 10 received automatic invitations to the Olympic tryouts. I didn’t attempt that. Nonetheless, shooting requires more concentration than anything I’ve done, and I played all the sports in HS, setting records in the pole vault, and also was a utility infielder on a Div 1 baseball team. Shooting is the toughest mental game of any of them. It also is more calming, and helps focus more than anything I’ve done.