Here are my thoughts on the subject. It isn't everything there is about shooting handguns. Most people are not elite, either socially or professionally. Most ordinary people will never attain the high skill levels of any of the men already mentioned or of those who are well known in the world of shooting sports, although those who can devote the time and money might. But that's all beside the point. Shooting a handgun does not demand a high skill level, although the more skill you have, the better.
Unless you go to the range and shoot a couple of boxes of cartridges each weekend, you'll never be a competitive pistol shooter either. If you do, you'll quickly reach the point where ordinary handguns aren't competitive enough. But ordinary people can do very will--or well enough--with relatively little training and practice, given the expectations of what most people might need a handgun for in the first place in the way of self-defense. I think a lot of the disagreements revolve around what constitutes an adequate skill level and what an armed person should expect to need. And it goes without saying that there is disagreement about what can be accomplished with anything less than carefull use of the sights. I'll put it that way because apparently different people might have a different idea of what point shooting is and I'll leave that out of the discussion. It might be possible that the missing element here is the reality of how much practice and training that most people are able to get in, with the resources they have.
Unless you go to the range and shoot a couple of boxes of cartridges each weekend, you'll never be a competitive pistol shooter either. If you do, you'll quickly reach the point where ordinary handguns aren't competitive enough. But ordinary people can do very will--or well enough--with relatively little training and practice, given the expectations of what most people might need a handgun for in the first place in the way of self-defense. I think a lot of the disagreements revolve around what constitutes an adequate skill level and what an armed person should expect to need. And it goes without saying that there is disagreement about what can be accomplished with anything less than carefull use of the sights. I'll put it that way because apparently different people might have a different idea of what point shooting is and I'll leave that out of the discussion. It might be possible that the missing element here is the reality of how much practice and training that most people are able to get in, with the resources they have.