I'm in favor of mandatory training to own a gun

outrider58 · Jan 20, 2018

.. mandatory mental analysis of people who are for mandatory arms training.

protegeV · Jan 20, 2018

Man, I just can't keep up with this thread...

woodstock · Jan 20, 2018

Doctor_M said:
While I agree that the new thread title makes sense from a context perspective... it churns my stomach acid every time I see it now.

"Stuff..." was much less offensive.

bless you.

teratos · Jan 20, 2018

woodstock said:
bless you.

I’m very disappointed in you.

woodstock · Jan 20, 2018

teratos said:
I’m very disappointed in you.

who isn't? :lol:

protegeV · Jan 20, 2018

woodstock said:
who isn't?

The first step...

rob · Jan 20, 2018

I kinda get the OPs point about free speech and manditory school attendance. Lets start firearms training as an essential part of public education. Run it K-12. Imagine all high school grads being comfortable and familiar with guns. It would be awesome! Liberals would $hit their pants! You'd see all our gun rights restored in just a few short years.

Start with toy guns in elementary school. BB guns in middle and 22 on up in high school. Maybe even special seminars in artillery!

Rob.

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Gryphon · Jan 20, 2018

You want to entrust firearm safety to those that brought us Common Core? No thank you.

j_h_smith · Jan 20, 2018

rob said:
I kinda get the OPs point about free speech and manditory school attendance. Lets start firearms training as an essential part of public education. Run it K-12. Imagine all high school grads being comfortable and familiar with guns. It would be awesome! Liberals would $hit their pants! You'd see all our gun rights restored in just a few short years.

Start with toy guns in elementary school. BB guns in middle and 22 on up in high school. Maybe even special seminars in artillery!

Rob.

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My high school held hunter safety courses after school WAY back in the day. Many attendees had never held a firearm before the class. This was not a rural school, very urban.

Not one student was killed in the process of taking these courses.

Imagine that!

themoose06 · Jan 20, 2018

Where can I signup for mandatory training that will teach me how to reply to this thread?

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Boom Boom · Jan 20, 2018

themoose06 said:
Where can I signup for mandatory training that will teach me how to reply to this thread?

Try Democratic Underground.

themoose06 · Jan 20, 2018

Boom Boom said:
Try Democratic Underground.

Probably where this thread belongs

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babalou · Jan 20, 2018

Reminds me of the one...

Huckleberry said:
Then you maybe licking the wrong end

That old saying of how do you tell the difference between a regular thermometer and an anal thermometer is by the taste

babalou · Jan 20, 2018

Annnnnddd.....

DC-W said:
We now have 12 states where no training is required for concealed carry and that number is only increasing. press1280 posted about at least 2 more states looking to go that way this year and this doesn’t count all the states where permitless open carry is already a thing.

Training is always encouraged; learning is fantastic and it behooves anyone and everyone to stay on top of things. Personally, i try to learn something new everyday and I encourage others to do the same. It’s healthy. It feels good. Volunteering and electing time for this stuff is simply great.

However, you won’t see me telling folks in those states that they’re too unlearned and untrained for their own good or that they don’t deserve to be able to protect themselves in public because they haven’t passed an IDPA qualifier or some other test. This is the price of freedom we pay. We cannot control what people ultimately do. Rather, we set positive examples and incentivize continued learning.

We’re in a state where many of us just listened to testimony from people who want and work to deny others the right to protect themselves — and we have 16 hours of required training before even applying for a permit that most are unlikely to get! Our current requirements in MD are onerous even without “good and substantial” and here they are doing what they can to disarm others. It’s truly awful.

I applaud the good charity that instructors like yourself have given and hope I’m able to do the same as I go along in this. Giving back is also fantastic, feels good, and is healthy. It’s truly a wonderful thing.

We’re going to have to agree to disagree on some of this stuff.

All the best!

Re-reading everything. Damn fast. This reply post from DC-W is the correct and only answer. Winner of the thread

KJackson · Jan 20, 2018

Norton said:
Meanwhile, on the topic of drums:

These guys are incredible!!! At least I think so.

protegeV · Jan 20, 2018

babalou said:
Re-reading everything. Damn fast. This reply post from DC-W is the correct and only answer. Winner of the thread

#winning is his middle name

babalou · Jan 20, 2018

But but

KJackson said:
These guys are incredible!!! At least I think so.

They do not look like the guys in the drumline movies. :innocent0

smokey · Jan 21, 2018

KJackson said:
These guys are incredible!!! At least I think so.

Especially those two on the ends. Tough job.

motorcoachdoug · Jan 21, 2018

If I remember right some high schools around the nation have or they had a rifle competition shooting team. I wonder if this is still around at all? Give the left liberals a major headache on this one...

rascal · Jan 21, 2018

woodstock said:
First off, would everyone here agree that in order to exercise our 1st amendment free speech rights, we have had MANDATORY training? yes or no? for those who say NO, if you didn't have the training to read and write, you couldn't read this. EDUCATION is mandatory, be it homeschool or public or private, it is mandatory. .

I don't want to get into how many errors of fact you have there, but in no way shape or form is training mandatory for exercise of first amendment liberties.

you in no way have to have training in religion to exercise freedom of religion, in assembly to exercise that or in speaking or reading or writing to exercise that.

If a person is visiting for china, they do not have to have had any education whatsoever to have full first amendment rights to freedom of speech (you do know that one does NOT have to be a citizen, but merely present in the US to have your bill of rights rights?)

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