[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

[dimk]

This reminds me of an army training camp that I had to go through while in highschool in former ussr. One of the other students carabine jammed so he turned around pointing the gun in the general direction of the sergeant while pressing the trigger and saying:"See it jammed!". The sergeant who previously served in afganistan in para knocked the gun out of the guys hands, then knocked him out with a left hook. After he awoke he was sent to a permanent toilet cleaning(not your north american toilet either) duty till the end of the course. I think he learned the lesson after that