Heh... I'm not that hard on her, or, for that matter, on the advice Dr. Joyce gave her. The advice she gave is the same I would give. She should go shooting with her husband and become familiar with it!
I've known a lot of good people, including my roommates in college, who were fearful and apprehensive about guns being in the house because they'd never been exposed to them! Anything unfamiliar and deadly is frightening.
But both of my roommates, and everyone else I've ever taken shooting, was much more comfortable with them after a nice, organized, safe day of target shooting.
"But both of my roommates, and everyone else I've ever taken shooting, was much more comfortable with them after a nice, organized, safe day of target shooting."
Ding! Ding! Ding!
All the rhetoric regarding firearms is essentially useless, and convinced nobody. Preaching to the choir or preaching to a group of people who hate firearms irrationally is a worthless activity.
Instead, doing what you describe is useful and helps the cause. I do the same, and have a 10m air rifle range in my basement for the first lessons. Everyone has fun with that, and it's often the first time people have ever touched a gun of any kind.
I've introduced dozens of people to shooting and to firearms safety in that range. Some have gone on to obtain their own firearms.
One gun-owner influencing others has far more effect than 1000 gun owners saying "Out of my cold, dead hands." Many 2nd Amendment advocates continually do their cause a disservice.