Kansas City Star Condemns Police Fundraiser

The newspaper is aghast at po-po selling big ticket items for a good cause.

Here is the premise of their anti-gun outcry . . .

"Holding a raffle to help support the family of officer James Muhlbauer, who along with his canine partner, K-9 Champ was killed while on duty in a February traffic accident, was a wonderful thing to do. But did it have to be for guns? 

And semi-automatic rifles, the kind that are the biggest threat to public safety? Isn’t the message that sends that you can never have too many? 

That no other toy would be more of a draw for this drawing? 

Could they be any more tone deaf or indifferent to optics, not to mention the reality that it’s so many guns that make their own work so much more difficult and our own community so much less safe?"

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The Kansas City Police Department must not think there are enough big guns in Kansas City, because it just raffled off two weapons of war, an AR-15 and an AR-10. Holding a raffle to help support the family of officer James Muhlbauer, who along with his canine partner, K-9 Champ was killed while on duty in a February traffic accident, was a wonderful thing to do.