What about the six years of military and six years of security police training like I have. Many veterans, sportsmen/women, hunters, target shooters, etc. out there have more and better training than the average police officer.
My point is simply that the author’s claim that arming untrained people is a bad idea... is flat wrong. It’s a good idea, as hundreds of years of our history proves. Not only do bad guys fear an armed (but largely untrained) populace, regular people do not fear them. The more the b***ards say the 2nd Amendment is bad for reasons X, Y and Z, the more we have to push back and correct them on every point. imo.
That is so true...I have cut back on my shooting lately just because of ammo shortages and I don't want to deplete my rather "substantial" inventory. But when I was shooting regularly there wasn't a LEO who could outshoot me and I used to shoot regularly over 400-rounds a month of large pistol calibers at an indoor range, plus lots of .22 plinking in the desert. Plus, attending advanced pistol and combat pistol and defence courses.
In most places, police academies devote just a week or two to firearms training. I've had far more formal training than the average police officer, and far more range time.