It appears that the Explorer Scouts are training their members in weapons use and military tactics.

OK, they are not. It’s training for law enforcement, and to my mind, probably very bad training for law enforcement, because, with its emphasis on military style assaults for for things like simulated bus hijackings, it contributes to an increasingly militarized mind set for what should be peace officers.

Additionally, if this were not run by the Explorer Scouts, a Co-Ed division of the Boy Scouts, but instead by the Islamic Community Center of Imperial California (Where the story is reported from), how long would before an ambitious prosecutor would charge them all with running a “terrorist training camp.”

What’s more, he would probably win the case.