Mike Irwin
Staff
"Those people didn't do it due to a lack of instruction
They did it due to breaking the rules"
You do realize that you just AGREED with my position, correct?
Otherwise your statement, and complete position, make absolutely NO sense.
"Those who handle guns every day can become too complacent"
What is complacency OTHER than breaking training? And what is breaking training? It's breaking the rules you've been taught for handling a gun, and that applies no matter whether one has received hundreds of hours or instruction or advice from someone saying "keep your finger off the trigger unless you want to shoot something."
Your position that someone who has little to no fundamental training in handling a firearm will somehow handle a gun better than someone who has ongoing training is absolutely ludicrous and comletely indefensible.
The truth is that everyone reacts to stress situations. People who are routinely trained handle those situations far better than those who are not, or who have less training.
But at the end of the day even highly trained people make fundamental mistakes, and people who are less trained are more likely to make the same mistakes in the same type of situation.
To hand an untrained or marginally trained gunowner a gun like a Glock and expect them to be able to remember and follow the far more intensive manual of arms required for a gun with such a short, light trigger pull is irresponsible in the extreme.
To blythly recommend it is equally irresponsible.
They did it due to breaking the rules"
You do realize that you just AGREED with my position, correct?
Otherwise your statement, and complete position, make absolutely NO sense.
"Those who handle guns every day can become too complacent"
What is complacency OTHER than breaking training? And what is breaking training? It's breaking the rules you've been taught for handling a gun, and that applies no matter whether one has received hundreds of hours or instruction or advice from someone saying "keep your finger off the trigger unless you want to shoot something."
Your position that someone who has little to no fundamental training in handling a firearm will somehow handle a gun better than someone who has ongoing training is absolutely ludicrous and comletely indefensible.
The truth is that everyone reacts to stress situations. People who are routinely trained handle those situations far better than those who are not, or who have less training.
But at the end of the day even highly trained people make fundamental mistakes, and people who are less trained are more likely to make the same mistakes in the same type of situation.
To hand an untrained or marginally trained gunowner a gun like a Glock and expect them to be able to remember and follow the far more intensive manual of arms required for a gun with such a short, light trigger pull is irresponsible in the extreme.
To blythly recommend it is equally irresponsible.