a person who wishes to receive professional instruction from doing so
The operative words there are "who wishes to receive", most do not. I am not saying they don't need it, they probably do.
Pax, my hat is off to you and your family and how you have gotten by as well as you do, but, your missed the point:
Small clarification: not 16,000 ADs. 16,000 serious injuries from ADs.
That number is a drop in the bucket, a single drop of rain in the middle of a flood and nothing compared to the number that die WORLD WIDE from conflicts going on NOW and in the PAST. Not viewing the reality of what is going on around us is as bad as the person who buys a gun and never goes out to shoot it until they have no other choice.
It would be nice if we could wrap everyone in bubble wrap and keep them safe from harm or even get everyone to take instructional training in the use of firearms, but it is not going to happen and espousing the philosophy that everyone should to become competent to use a firearm is just plain silly and unrealistic. In the last 225 years or so that the second amendment has been in effect, the number of shooters that have taken instructional training in firearm usage is well under 1 ten millionth (0.000001) or one percent, counting all the homesteaders, cowboys, peace officers, soldiers, hobbyists, hunters and yes even NRA members.
Yes, it is possible to become very competent without taking a instructional class, and yes there are a large number of people out there that are incompetent in firearm safety and usage. That is not going to change, but what can change is telling people that they need to take the responsibility for their own actions and to get some training if at all reasonable under their circumstances (financial and time wise). But to go out there and practice, practice and practice, so that they will be competent and safe in the handling of firearms.
I put this at the end of each and every post I do here and mean every word of it.
STAY SAFE.
Jim
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There are some people who might have great difficulty or who might even find it impossible to spare the money for professional training, however they are in a tiny minority.
No John, they are the great silent majority, get out and run for public office and you will see what I mean, I have.
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