CHICAGO -- A Wisconsin university last month thwarted Republican students from raising currency for a group called "Adopt a Sniper.


CHICAGO -- A Wisconsin university last month thwarted Republican students from raising currency for a group called "Adopt a Sniper," which subsidizes U sharpshooters in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Selling bracelets bearing the motto "1 projectile 1 Kill, No Remorse; I Decide," scholars represented a group called guild Republicans at a school fundraiser for U multitudes in Iraq. The group, the brainchild of a Texas police SWAT officer, supports snipers opened by the United States armed forces. forward its web site, the clump claims it "helps real snipers learn the real gear they ne to help continue us safe." It has raised thousands of dollars for American combat platoons, through selling products such as a $15 coin with the imprinted phrase, "Assistance From A Distance."

"Clearly the rhetoric of that organization raised near questions and we had about strong objections as a Jesuit university," Marquette University train spokeswoman Brigid O'Brien told the San Francisco Chronicle.



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