I think we're seeing an attempt to manufacture a controversy in the Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, home to a high-end range called The Guntry Club. As it turns out, the range has a contract allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to train at the facility, and Baltimore CBS affiliate WJZ has decided this is somehow newsworthy... even though they couldn't find anyone willing to go on camera to complain about it.
"We came just to do some target practice. One of my friend's birthdays just passed, so we all met up here just to shoot some guns," Guntry customer Fernando Escobar said.
Escobar said he had a great time at Guntry in Owings Mills.
He said he isn't bothered that the range is one of the facilities the Department of Homeland Security contracts with for ICE agents to use for firearms training.
"As a Hispanic male, people would probably say I shouldn't support it, but at the end of the day, I've got to get my training in as well. So whether it's a place that they train at or a place that they don't, I still got to go," Escobar said.
That's the thing. Whether you're okay with ICE being in your community or ticked off about their presence, I think we can all agree that we want our law enforcement agents to have some firearms training (unless you're opposed to them having firearms at all, I suppose). The same is true for gun owners. Training is good. Heck, according to gun control activists training should be mandatory before we can even keep a gun in our home.
So if the vast majority of us can agree that training is a good thing, why should ICE training at a commercial range be controversial?
I don't object to journolists trying to stir up a little controversy, but why is it always slanted to the left? Oh yeah, Maryland.
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