Re: Smith Airweight .38 question
- From: nordrseta@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:24:33 +0000 (UTC)
# # We'll have to agree to disagree. Your acquaintance reduced her
# # chances of surviving a violent attack by 20% based on bad advice she
# # received from someone ignorant of firearm safety and self defense
# # techniques. Did she receive any other sub-optimal, worthless, or
# # dangerous advice from him? I care and so should every responsible
# # citizen. Ignorance and firearms are a bad mix. Every stolen gun,
# # every unjustified shooting, every negligent discharge, every firearm
# # suicide, every accidental gunshot injury reflects poorly on
# # responsible gunowners.
#
# Just for clarification...are you saying that gun ownership should depend on
# the level of training received? Or is it just a prudent recommendation?
I'm not in favor of untrained persons carrying pistols in public, or
even keeping firearms for self defense at home, but I said nothing
about mandatory training for possession, home defense, or even
concealed carry. My original comment was:
# I recommend your acquaintance attend a short
# course of professional firearms instruction; no telling what else
she
# has wrong.
As you said, merely a prudent recommendation. People who tell other
people to carry a DA revolver with an empty chamber are likely dipping
from a large reservoir of bad advice. Some bad advice can land you in
prison, other bad advice can put you or a loved one in a coffin.
Short self defense courses put on by professional trainers for a
reasonable fee are available in many communities. There are also free
courses but the quality and consistency of instruction by volunteers
is more difficult to evaluate.
The OP replied:
# As you may well know, there are a lot
# of people carrying who really don't grasp what they are doing, nor
the
# mechanics of their guns. Yet, I would accept that deficiency and
have more
# people armed than to make the requirements so strict that only the
anal or
# professionals could conform with. Very few "bad guys" know a lot
about
# guns, their performance, their mechanics, or their maintenance.
On this the OP and I disagree. Untrained persons packing heat in
public is a recipe for a variety of personal failures, if not
community tragedy. I'm not proposing to regulate it (beyond the
current restrictions on felons and persons named in restraining
orders), but I don't have to think it's a good idea. Rather than
flooding the streets with ill-trained pistoleros as a matter of public
policy I'd much rather those who refuse to become adept with firearms
choose OC spray or civilian Tasers instead. The choice should be
theirs, and so should personal responsibility for any and all
consequences.
All that said, the OP did tell the lady she could load all five
chambers. He was just trying to be helpful. Hell, if she ever needs
a fifth shot some day his one piece of good advice might save her life.
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