At one point, he accidentally locked himself out of the car, with the gun inside. He may have thought this would lead to his capture.
Aiko was too scared to pick up the gun. She eventually unlocked the door and let him in. He did unspeakable things to her and murdered her.
Had she been comfortable with guns, she may well still be alive today.
And the five people he subsequently murdered would never been victims.
Oh, my. I had never heard of that.
When my daughter was a firearms trainer for the Coast Guard, she said they had recruits who had never been in the same room with a gun and were afraid to touch even the laser target “guns” they started with.
I had a girl at the archery range at Webelos camp who was scared. I told her none of the equipment was going to do anything loud. “Hold the bow like this. Arrow goes like this. Fingers here on the string. Stand up straight and pull ... shoot.”
She got a bullseye on her first shot. “Oh, this is fun!”
No words,