Disturbign look at gun safety classes

[Old Crank]

It seems that the instructors want to instill fear along with any actual afe use education. Not good.

First, the good news: Every firearms instructor I encountered was extremely serious about preventing accidents. When a student inadvertently pointed his gun at me for a moment, our instructor immediately chastised him. And when the student objected, saying he didn’t have his finger on the trigger, the instructor became livid and threatened to kick him out of class.

But teaching people how to avoid shooting someone by accident is a small part of what these classes are about. The primary lessons are about if and when to shoot someone on purpose. And this is where the trouble begins.

Instructors repeatedly told me that a big part of their job was to make people feel vulnerable, to make them aware of dangers they were not conscious of before to understand that bad things can happen at any time. One instructor told me he encourages students to carry their gun at all times. If students say they plan to leave it in the car, he responds, “So what you’re telling me is the only time you are ever going to get attacked is if you are in your car?”



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/opinion/firearms-guns-america-safety.html?te=1&nl=opinion-today&emc=edit_ty_20230517

[AndyS]

1. The entire industry is based on fear.

You have to have a gun to protect yourself.

From who?

Other people with guns.

It has finally reached the point that all these good guys with guns have become a genuine threat to the public at large.

[TexasDem69]

2. Can't access the story since it's behind a paywall

But people who want to criticize the lack of firearm safety classes in some states then also criticize the content of those classes in states that offer them seem to have an agenda.

[Azathoth]

4. You don't say

It's almost as if concerns about safety and lack of education are talking points to advance an underlying cultural agenda...

[Docjohnson]

3. The only way this scourge

Will end is to nationalize the fear mongering gun industry, immediately shut down their death factories and confiscate every last one in private hands