BOSTON GLOBE: How a gun-hating family from Billerica produced an Olympic shooter. Yes, the Boston Globe.

“I was very anti-gun when my kids were little,” says Scherer’s mother, Sue, who works a number of different jobs, including cleaning and painting houses, running a day care, and organizing Jeopardy!-style entertainment for nursing homes. “I always thought, `Guns are bad. Guns kill people.’ So, I didn’t want my kids to have anything to do with guns.”

Read the whole thing. (Via Dave Hardy, who sees a countercultural angle).