Yeah exactly! I’ve been around a lot of guns in my life, have shot several different types, come from a hunting family, yadda yadda. Honestly people in general shouldn’t be blanket trusted to be safe with weapons, because in my experience many of them just are not. I don’t think having guns is a problem in itself, we just need to make sure people are safe. Many serious self-defense experts advocate for running or removing yourself from potentially dangerous situations before exercising violence, and I think we can carry that philosophy forward into our lawmaking.
Something I haven’t seen before that I’d like to see tried out would be some sort of required firearms training, but make it mandatory that a local certifier, a police or sheriff’s liaison or something, perform the training for free to citizens. I think if we had police doing it that might be a chance to foster some good will with the community, do some regular humanizing type stuff. No infringement of anyone’s rights, and I also get what I want in more safe gun owners.
That’s a good idea in theory, I just hope no problems come with it! Also yea, I’ve shot a few guns at my local range. I’ve stopped going because I got chronic pain, shooting a gun, having to have a proper posture, grip, dealing with loud noise (obv), I don’t think it’s for me, or everyone for that matter.
Giving every teacher a gun doesnt mean they’ll be able to handle it, let alone the situation of fighting a school shooter.
The police on the other hand did sign up for combating shit like that.
Yeah exactly! I’ve been around a lot of guns in my life, have shot several different types, come from a hunting family, yadda yadda. Honestly people in general shouldn’t be blanket trusted to be safe with weapons, because in my experience many of them just are not. I don’t think having guns is a problem in itself, we just need to make sure people are safe. Many serious self-defense experts advocate for running or removing yourself from potentially dangerous situations before exercising violence, and I think we can carry that philosophy forward into our lawmaking.
Something I haven’t seen before that I’d like to see tried out would be some sort of required firearms training, but make it mandatory that a local certifier, a police or sheriff’s liaison or something, perform the training for free to citizens. I think if we had police doing it that might be a chance to foster some good will with the community, do some regular humanizing type stuff. No infringement of anyone’s rights, and I also get what I want in more safe gun owners.
That’s a good idea in theory, I just hope no problems come with it! Also yea, I’ve shot a few guns at my local range. I’ve stopped going because I got chronic pain, shooting a gun, having to have a proper posture, grip, dealing with loud noise (obv), I don’t think it’s for me, or everyone for that matter.
Giving every teacher a gun doesnt mean they’ll be able to handle it, let alone the situation of fighting a school shooter.
The police on the other hand did sign up for combating shit like that.