Originally Posted by Robbie

I've always wondered about "training" with guns.

What the heck do you "train" people to do when they have a gun? It isn't brain surgery.

"Here is a gun. You put the bullets in like this. Pull the trigger. Bang. Here is the safety. Make sure that is on when the gun is not being fired. And don't point this gun at anybody unless you are meaning to shoot"

Does that really require people to be "trained" and take classes? Are people really that goddamned stupid?