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Originally Posted by Robbie
I'm not sure what you are talking about in your first sentence. 
The shooting part...yeah, it does take practice if you are wanting to become a great shot and be able to hit targets with great accuracy.
Not sure if that's what gun control people are referring to when they say "training" though.
I don't think their objective is to make people MORE lethal with the weapon. lol
What I meant is...why does it take classes and trainers to "train" people?
A gun is a very, very simplistic weapon. Put bullet in, aim, pull trigger.
Totally uneducated peasants were doing it hundreds of years ago.
And also...for safety issues...Doesn't seem like it should take months of training to be told how to be safe with a gun.
You can do that in a couple of sentences.
Now whether or not people will actually DO what they know they should is another story.
Complacency and familiarity of having the gun for a long time without anything going wrong is what led to this accidental shooting. (just like it does in most accidents in life) |
I was referring to the "point and shoot, or don't point- rule". Seems a tad silly to me.
About the training. It does help with the "butter finger syndrome", and attitude training is also a big part. Although I haven't been in any formal gun training if you don't count army. Anyways, when shooting at local gun club, etc, it is not that uncommon to see folks "trained". Training in here means that they do safety, etc. errors and then they get corrected. Sometimes thrown out of the gun range if they are not fast enough learners. That is how I got trained; apparently it is not enough for fellow shooters that you can shoot with the gun; right direction, etc. is also appreciated. Not that I would have been thrown out of the range or anything similar.
Oh, and I started shooting many years before army (as 15 years old).