I understand that a safety class isn’t going to overcome malicious intent and I understand that it won’t stop some batcrap crazy son of Randy Weaver who thinks every cop he meets is Long John Silver but let me tell you who it will stop.
Interesting that you would pull Randy Weaver's name out of your butt while talking about government mandates that infringe on the 2nd Amendment. He doesn't have any sons, batcrap crazy or otherwise. His only son was murdered, shot in the back. He died just seconds before a rifle bullet shot from 200 yards away took out his unarmed mother while she was holding the now-dead son's baby sister in her arms. Both Sammy and Vicki Weaver were murdered by the government. As I recall, the N R A didn't lift a finger to even say so much as "Good luck" to him when he was arrested, charged with murder and the original charge of being in possession of a sawed off shotgun (about 1/4" shy of the requisite 18" barrel length) that a government informant hounded him relentlessly to so-modify. He was acquitted of all charges except one; failure to appear. The jury thought the US Marshal deputy who died was a self-defense killing, and the shotgun was entrapment. If the trial had not been so utterly awash in prosecutorial misconduct, it's likely he would've avoided the failure to appear conviction too - he failed to appear because of not being notified of a hearing date, but part of the misconduct by the prosecution was denying knowledge of that fact to Weaver's and Harris' defense team, so the jury didn't have a valid "out" to convicting him on that charge. (You do know who Harris is, don't you?)
No tellin' what lies and fantasies of government shills you've been listening to in order to spew the above disrespectful tripe about a man and his dead son who lost everything to the government that you now want to empower to further encroach on all of our rights. You should stop pretending that you support the 2nd Amendment in any way, shape, manner or form. Clearly, you haven't a clue what it protects if you can write from a position of such sweeping ignorance about the events and people involved at Ruby Ridge in 1992.
A few years back I was at a gun show in Tulsa while I was wandering around I watched a woman walk up to a table, pick up a revolver finger on the trigger, she pointed it right at the seller and asked him “ is this a semi automatic?” It was like that one word was all she knew about guns, some of them are “semiautomatic”. I don’t want that woman anywhere around me with a gun until she’s had some kind of firearms safety training.
Wow. You mean to tell me that they actually allow handgun neophytes to handle
unloaded guns at a gun show???? Unreal! You must have been terrified,
terri-fricken-fied I tells ya!
As soon as she enters my area with a gun she threatens me and I have a legitimate stake in ensuring that she has been properly trained
Then offer her the benefit of your vast training. What's so hard about that? "Ma'am, I wouldn't want to see you hurt yourself, and I sure as heck don't want you hurting me or mine, so please allow me to help you be as awesomely safe as I am." But no, you can't help someone while at the same time maintaining a perfectly 2A-compliant position, you want the government to impose this magical
basic pistol course on all of us, even in states where no training requirements exist now. Yay 2nd Amendment, huh? Pffft.
It is precisely this attitude that there is such a thing as "reasonable" gun control that I detest in the establishment shills of the N R A. And I did see above where you claim they're the "tall hog at the trough," but tell me this about your tall hog, Johnny - Which .org brought, prepared, argued and won both Heller and McDonald? I'll give ya a hint: It wasn't the N R A, and in fact, your tall hog actively opposed bringing Heller. I'll take a short hog who's got actual fight in him over the fat lazy tall hog every time. You, Johnny? Not so much.
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