So I ventured to the gun club ready to get my lesson in self-defense.
I ended up discovering that knowing how to shoot a gun probably wouldn't help me fend off criminals.
Then I'd say you failed the class. Either that or it failed you.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Either/Or
Then I'd say you failed the class. Either that or it failed you.
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Something is screwy with the range she chose. The range employees explanation for shooting knowledge for self-defense: "Take a Virginia Tech-like example ... If the shooter had dropped the gun from his bag, or somehow he lost control of it … you would feel comfortable picking it up and disarming it."
Yeah, I'd feel more comfortable sending a few rounds into center mass, myself. That and the instructor told her he'd run...that's why I left open the possibility that the class failed her.
In my experience, it takes a minimum of 12 hrs of intense, competent instruction and range time to become marginally competent to handle a criminal attack with a firearm.
If I had EVER encountered an instructor who told me to "run away," I'd have packed my stuff up, walked away, and demanded my money back.
I wouldn't say the class failed her. Her expectations of the class failed her. The class was a basic safety class, not a self defense class.
I think the instructor was right, in a way, for saying what he said. Knowing the (3??) rules and safe handling IS NOT going to help you during a criminal encounter. There are classes specifically for that that work much better.
I think the instructor could have worded it better. (perhaps he did, and the writer was spinning the story in a different way.)
That's a good point Nitrogen, about the purpose of the class. I still think the employee's comment about being able to disarm one of a mass-murderer's dropped guns is odd.
See, what I homed in on, Nitrogen, was not the instructor telling her to run, which could have been a valid assessment of her wits and capabilities, but rather him telling her that he would run.
At that point, I scratch my head and wonder.
I concure...and she thinks a hat with a "gun Logo" might make an armed lunatic think before he attacks her!?!
Daddy did the right thing by exposing her to guns during her youth, but blew it when he sent her to an Ivy League school.
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