Reply #9: Ummm...not to rain on anyone's hatefest here,

[benEzra]

but the NRA canceled all their activities in Colorado that year except for the annual business meeting that they were required by law to hold, as I understand it. There may have been a breakfast or something that wasn't canceled as well, but the convention was most definitely canceled.

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/shooting/0422nra3.shtml

NRA curtails convention

In a letter to NRA members Wednesday, President Charlton Heston and the group's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, said all seminars, workshops, luncheons, exhibits by gun makers and other vendors, and festivities are canceled.

All that's left is a members' reception with Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., and the annual meeting, set for 10 a.m. May 1 in the Colorado Convention Center.

Under its bylaws and New York state law, the NRA must hold an annual meeting.

As to the OP, target shooting has long been a fixture in schools around the world, and I suspect that this proposal was in the works long before the recent murders. And if I recall, the shootings weren't carried out by a high school rifle team, not that it matters to the vultures...