Kim Rhode is an avid supporter of the Second Amendment. She’s also a gold medal-winning trap and skeet shooter who has placed in five consecutive Olympics. 

As Rhode made the media rounds for the games, she proudly defended the Second Amendment. In an interview with TIME, Rhode said:

“We should have the right to keep and bear arms, to protect ourselves and our family.

“The second amendment was put in there not just so we can go shoot skeet or go shoot trap. It was put in so we could defend our first amendment, the freedom of speech, and also to defend ourselves against our own government.”

“We have that stigma attached to our sport,” Rhode, 37, said. “When you are talking to a NASCAR driver, they’re not asked to comment on an incident that occurred with a vehicle.”

TIME’s interview certainly touched on gun control and mass shootings, but Rhode said though terrorist attacks, like the one in San Bernardino, are heartbreaking, they really just make her “want to carry even more.” Rhode told the magazine that gun control legislation is usually very misguided in the wake of national tragedies and only makes it tougher on law-abiding gun owners:

“I shoot 500 to 1,000 rounds a day, so having to do a background check every time I purchase ammo, or every time I want to bring ammo in or out of a competition or a match, those are very challenging for me. 

“Also, I’ve had guns in my family for generations that have been passed down, and now I’m going to register them as assault weapons. And they will not be passed on to my son, or to me from my father. It definitely does affect me and give me a reason to speak out more.”

Shooting may not be the most popular among viewers during the games, but it can boast as the event that earned the USA’s first gold medal in Rio this year. (And by a teenage girl to boot!)

H/T Breitbart