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mnottertail -> RE: Why are anti-regulation folk such poor shots? (6/20/2016 1:17:32 PM)
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When we were kids the NRA taught gun safety courses in our town, for a minimal charge, I believe at 12 years old. I believe they still do. The difference is, every girl and boy went to them, it was required by parents, much like confirmation schools (note: Huge crisis of concience when they changed it from Tuesday School to Wednesday School) whether you were ever going to shoot a gun again in your life or not, as I remember it was a couple-three nights a week for two or three weeks. and it was like military arms training, you knew everything about those guns when you got done, and it was strict and you could not fuck off at all.
Some years later you needed to get a chit from the local sheriff to carry, if in the country, or the local cop to carry if you lived in town, all they required was a clean BCA (you know, no convicted felons and so on), and gun training. I told them I had it NRA at 12 but didnt have the card any more (they didnt care about the fact I gave classes on M1911s in the service) and they said, that's ok the state has those enrollments and completions. Now you gotta take a class (way less strenuous, often held at bars for a couple hours and shoot 4 shots at a target 12 feet away).
Yeah, bowling and archery was ok for gym classes, but I could easily lose the square dancing chunk of education for gun education.
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