Molon labe.
Once stated, it is hard to rescind. People will believe what they first hear/see and will fail to take the time to authenticate the facts.
Once stated, it is hard to rescind. People will believe what they first hear/see and will fail to take the time to authenticate the facts. Simply, tell them what you want them to hear.
This may be true since (and according to the Obamao administration) people are “children” until they’re 26.
Teach children to safely handle firearms instead of screaming at them “Don’t Touch~!” My father taught me to shoot at age five and also my siblings when they were young. No accidents ever happened even though the firearms were “Unsecured” and many in number in our home.
Initiative to be started at earliest practical date:
Introduction of a course, at high school level, that includes the care, grooming, feeding and proper lawful use and operation of side arms, from pistols to rifles and shotguns, with remedial training if the basics are not gained by first part of course. Further instruction in range safety, acquisition and framing of intended target, target practice, accuracy of aiming and firing of weapon, and basic bodily control, like positioning, breath control, and operation of the mechanics of squeezing trigger, allowing for cartridge shell ejection, and re-cocking the weapon, then re-aiming for next pull of the trigger. This applies to bolt-action, lever action, and semi-automatic designs.
In the process, the persons least likely to absorb and apply these lessons would be fairly quickly identified, and like those of low athletic potential, swiftly shifted to a less “threatening” course of instruction, like how to evade and take cover from others who mean to direct harm at them, “bully defense”.
Now THAT would be sensible gun control.
How is a “secured” gun even fired? Is not every gun “unsecured” when it is used by a hunter? by a target shooter? by a criminal?
When my life was saved by a bystander who pulled out his gun, was that not an unsecured gun?
The whole concept and usage of unsecured perplexes me. I’m not into guns. But the wording seems weird to me.
I remember that my grandfather, who lived with us, kept his two revolvers locked in his safe when I was a child. His and my father’s rifles and shotguns were kept in a gun rack in the back of a closet that did not have a lock. I was taught the difference between my Kilgore cap pistols and real guns. I was told and obeyed that I was not to touch the real guns unless either my father or grandfather took me out to shoot one of them. I was allowed to shoot them on my own when I was 11 or 12 years old, but had to ask permission first.
I know it is probably one in a million but I had a co-worker who lost a son this way. He was sleeping over at a friend’s house.
Ban shoes! The kid the other day was nearly killed for his Air Jordans.
Ban hands! The other day, a guy was arrested for chocking his gf.
Ban cars and bathtubs and kitchen knives and all choking hazards and planes and dogs and people.