I’m guessing she didn’t get good early firearms safety training as most of us at Free Republic did.
> I’m guessing she didn’t get good early firearms safety training as most of us at Free Republic did. <
It’s a bit of a side point, but that’s what a dislike about the TV show ‘Pawn Stars’. A guy comes in wanting to sell a gun. He waves it around. Then the pawn guy takes the gun and waves it around. Nobody bothers to clear the gun first.
Carefully doing that would educate a lot of viewers.
“I’m guessing she didn’t get good early firearms safety training as most of us at Free Republic did.”
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I suspect that is true. For a simple firearms training lesson: If you take a child and show how a gun shot can destroy a can of tomato juice and the juice can’t be put back in the can, they get a general idea of what happens when a person gets shot.
When you explain and show to a child how a round remains in the gun’s chamber even after removing the magazine, they understand how an “unloaded” gun can kill someone. If you exhibit to a child how you can shoot through a piece of sheet-rock, and the round goes through both it and the board which is behind it, they learn that you should be aware of what is behind your target.
There are a lot of simple lessons you can safely teach a child about firearms which they will remember when unexpectedly in a situation in which a gun is introduced.
Apparently, this person never received any of that training.