{"id":61533,"date":"2016-08-03T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=61533"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T01:31:55","slug":"kim-rhode-dispelling-anti-gun-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/kim-rhode-dispelling-anti-gun-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"How Olympian Kim Rhode is Battling Anti-Gun Stereotypes, 2A Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_61536\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kim-rhode-olympic-training-059-18ada354f01222b0a60b025123e7b5ac446ab605-s800-c85.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"kim-rhode-dispelling-anti-gun-stereotypes\" title=\"How Olympian Kim Rhode is Battling Anti-Gun Stereotypes, 2A Attacks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61536\" title=\"How Olympian Kim Rhode is Battling Anti-Gun Stereotypes, 2A Attacks\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kim-rhode-olympic-training-059-18ada354f01222b0a60b025123e7b5ac446ab605-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Rhode, one heck of a shooter! 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(Photo: Nathan Rott\/NPR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the majority of athletes heading to Rio this year for the 2016\u00a0Olympic Games, there is really only one thing they have to worry about: the competition. Well, okay, maybe two things if you include the Zika virus.<\/p>\n<p>However, for Olympic shooters it&#8217;s quite different. \u00a0Not only do they have to worry about the competition, \u00a0but they also have to worry about combating anti-gun stereotypes and a media that have become increasingly hostile to gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetorch\/2016\/07\/31\/487770855\/u-s-olympian-kim-rhode-wants-to-use-her-shot-at-history-to-dispel-stigma\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"kim-rhode-dispelling-anti-gun-stereotypes\" title=\"How Olympian Kim Rhode is Battling Anti-Gun Stereotypes, 2A Attacks\">NPR<\/a>, legendary olympian Kim Rhode spoke about the double standard that exists for athletes in shooting sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the London Games, the first question I got asked when I just won a gold medal in the Olympics wasn&#8217;t, &#8216;Tell us what it&#8217;s like to represent your country or what&#8217;s it like standing on the podium or what does this medal mean to you?'&#8221; said Rhode. &#8220;It was: &#8216;Can you comment on Aurora?'&#8221; \u2014 a reference to the mass killing in a Colorado movie theater.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing&#8217;s changed since then as now the five-time medalist is fielding questions about Orlando and San Bernardino.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No other sport in the Olympics gets that,&#8221; she says. &#8220;They don&#8217;t ask the swimmers to comment after somebody drowns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Rhode feels for those who&#8217;ve lost someone at the hand of a madman with a gun, she also notes that the gun-control legislation that is so often proposed in the wake of these tragic events is ill-conceived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of bills and legislation that are making it very difficult for people to go out and enjoy that sport that I personally love,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As a Southern California native, she pointed to a new law that requires background checks for ammo purchases and another law that prohibits one from loaning a gun to a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I go through a lot of ammunition,&#8221; she says, in reference to the new ammo law and, as it relates to the gun-lending law she said, &#8220;How is someone supposed to learn how to shoot if you can&#8217;t lend them a gun to try?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rhode also spoke about how the media consistently covers stories that put firearms in a negative light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything we hear [about guns] on the media and news is nothing positive,&#8221; she says. &#8220;They don&#8217;t talk about the scholarships that kids are getting or the shooting teams around the country where kids are learning things like discipline, respect and teamwork \u2014 things they&#8217;ll use for the rest of their life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rhode has won an Olympic medal at each of the five preceding Summer Games. Rhode participates in trap and skeet competitions and since the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the 36-year-old has earned three gold medals, one silver, and one bronze. If she wins another this year, she\u2019ll become the first American ever to win a medal at six different Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Now that would be a positive story. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see if it gets any airtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have a lot of bills and legislation that are making it very difficult for people to go out and enjoy that sport that I personally love,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":61536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,241,216,240],"tags":[132,472,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-rapid-fire","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-competitive-shooting","13":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Olympian Kim Rhode is Battling Anti-Gun Stereotypes, 2A Attacks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;We have a lot of bills and legislation that are making it very difficult for people to go out and enjoy that sport that I personally love,&quot; she said.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/kim-rhode-dispelling-anti-gun-stereotypes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Olympian Kim Rhode is Battling Anti-Gun Stereotypes, 2A Attacks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;We have a lot of bills and legislation that are making it very difficult for people to go out and enjoy that sport that I personally love,&quot; she said.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/kim-rhode-dispelling-anti-gun-stereotypes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-03T20:16:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T01:31:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kim-rhode-olympic-training-059-18ada354f01222b0a60b025123e7b5ac446ab605-s800-c85.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"599\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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