[Vigilant1]

What people seem to be missing here is that I am calling for a standardized gun safety course that is very affordable (or even free) because it is subsidized by the gun & sporting goods industries and donations. That would be coupled with a big advertising push to get the word out on gun safety.

Others have said here it will not help the NRA's leadership debacle. I disagree. NRA leaders at the moment lack a common program they could all get behind. This could help bring them together and resolve their differences. They are squabbling like children at the moment, but they are all American patriots who might answer such a call to do a public service for their country. It is worth a try.

[HenryBowmanAZ]

Then you’re calling out the wrong organization.

NRA instructors don’t work for the NRA. They are independent, and many (maybe most?) of them are volunteers who don’t make a profit off their work. When you call on “the NRA to offer a free program” what you are really saying is that “these independent volunteers should work unreimbursed.” Sorry, Massa, we decline.

If you want this program to be “subsidized by the gun and sporting goods industries and donations,” you need to be hitting up the NSSF, not the NRA. Feel free to do that. We’ll wait here for you to tell us all how successful you were.