[VRWCmember]

I remember an occasion in a HS outdoor education class where we had a cop come in to teach a firearm safety unit. He pulled out a little Baretta .22 or .25 semi-auto and popped the magazine out and then waived the gun around briefly pointing it toward the desks where we were seated. I ducked quickly nearly falling out of my desk to stay below his line of "aim" of the pistol. He commended me as being the only one in the class that was paying enough attention and treating the gun as a loaded weapon, which shut up the classmates that were laughing at me. He then jacked the slide ejecting the cartridge that had been in the chamber.

[Sir_Ed]

"I remember an occasion in a HS outdoor education class where we had a cop come in to teach a firearm safety unit. He pulled out a little Baretta .22 or .25 semi-auto and popped the magazine out and then waived the gun around briefly pointing it toward the desks where we were seated."

Reminds me of when I saw Oklahoma at my local high school.

One scene had a woman waving a pistol around, and it was obvious the pistol was real, prolly borrowed from her Dad, and another scene had a man waving a rifle around, also obviously a real rifle.

In both instances the pistol and rifle were sweeping repeatedly across the audience, and the actress and actor's fingers were inside the trigger guard, curled around the trigger.

I shrank in my seat each time the muzzle swept across us, and my heart started pounding, but I didn't know what else to do

I do believe the guns were checked, and...as this was in rural Oregon, I believe that the teachers, directors and actors knew enough about guns to double and triple check that they weren't loaded, but it still sent shock waves of fear through me to see those guns being waved around so cavalierly.

Ed