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Air Force Ad for Martin Luther King Jr. Day "Fun Shoot" Target Practice is Yanked with Apologies

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Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia was forced to apologize for a controversial ad promoting a Martin Luther King Jr. Day “fun shoot.” King, of course, was shot dead by an assassin in Memphis in 1968. The worst idea so far of 2016. (Maybe it will prove to be the worst idea of the whole year. Oh, wait. There's Trump.)

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