Especially for younger people, proper firearm training is as much about proper technical care as it is proper usage, but I think the key hidden element is, ironically, normalizing guns.
In the West, guns are fucking cool. You know what’s not cool? Anything you learned about in middle school.
Anyone can buy and own and posses and carry a firearm, basically, with little to no required training.
and
Everyone is encouraged to be trained in the proper usage and maintenance of firearms, but also, you do not get to take them home with you, carry or posses them privately.
Gun control was huge in the USSR.
But… that does not mean that you cannot also train the population in the usage of firearms, and then just keep those firearms locked in the training facilities/range armories.
Sure, you’re allowed to have whatever takeaway vibe you want… but that doesn’t mean your takeaway vibe makes any sense at all.
Let’s call it anecdotal evidence if we must, but it seems to me that most school shooters seem to have been fairly knowledgeable in handling their weapons and aware of what happens when they pull the trigger.
This one doesn’t land with me
It feels like “US mass shootings are caused by a kid showing off his dad’s ar when someone accidentally switched it to auto and bumped the trigger”
Especially for younger people, proper firearm training is as much about proper technical care as it is proper usage, but I think the key hidden element is, ironically, normalizing guns.
In the West, guns are fucking cool. You know what’s not cool? Anything you learned about in middle school.
Nah, its showing the difference between:
Anyone can buy and own and posses and carry a firearm, basically, with little to no required training.
and
Everyone is encouraged to be trained in the proper usage and maintenance of firearms, but also, you do not get to take them home with you, carry or posses them privately.
Gun control was huge in the USSR.
But… that does not mean that you cannot also train the population in the usage of firearms, and then just keep those firearms locked in the training facilities/range armories.
Sure, you’re allowed to have whatever takeaway vibe you want… but that doesn’t mean your takeaway vibe makes any sense at all.
Yeah, no way to connect these dots for me either.
Let’s call it anecdotal evidence if we must, but it seems to me that most school shooters seem to have been fairly knowledgeable in handling their weapons and aware of what happens when they pull the trigger.