Good Job Missouri

Not to mention a lot more unstable people and less real fathers to teach them (or smack into) a sense of right and wrong.
Luckily, I had a grandfather and father that smacked that sense into me and taught me how to handle a gun of any caliber. Even after that, I STILL got classes.
It's a right, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't practice said right.
It's my right to free speech, but as all of us married guys know, it's not always a good idea LOL

 

Not to mention they actually had Gatling guns at the time of the forefathers. Some peoples logic is ridiculous.
I guess domestic enemies meant deer and bears and foreign meant tigers and elephants? Huh?

 

I don't know what kind of people you hang out with but no one I know shakes while holding a gun especially being in a military town (Colorado Springs) I find your statement unbelievable. When I took my CCW class it was 90% female and 70% teachers that the class was being paid for by schools they worked at "designated security officers". Just to give you an idea of what kind of people are carrying in CO. And everyone that I know that wasn't raised around guns and wanted to get a handgun sought training and use of a handgun before being bought. So calling them an untrained idiot doesn't make any sense. But if these aren't the type of people you associate with then by all means please keep them from getting a gun just don't push that on me. DTOM

 

Just a side note about keeping guns at home. Last year Colorado had a pretty scary problem of a certain type of people and I say that because it was the same people going from hospital to hospital asking questions about security cameras, response times, hospital layouts and other security type questions. The area of there inquiry was from north Denver all the way to Fort Collins. Nothing came of it but for me knowing the hospital I worked at was being probed by people with bad intentions and me being completely unarmed kinda freaked me out.

 

That says it all!

 

I'm just giving you a little insight into the type of people that I see want to carry concealed weapons. I don't see untrained idiots wanting to carry. Those are already out there. I see law abiding citizens jumping through to many hoops or possibly even an infinite number of hoops to be able to protect themselves from people who want to harm them. As to the other statement I probably should have separated it. more of a response to

Ive seen a lot of people shoot weapons for there first time never seen the shaking. Possibly because we were raised in different areas who knows. But as I grew up guns or the idea of a gun were a part of life hell the very concept started with a nerf gun. enough said. But I do go to shooting ranges throughout Colorado and I see Americans out there practicing there heritage some not so skilled but that's why they have range officers and other knowledgeable Americans. And when someone make a mistake someone is there to help correct the mistake.

I guess to me I just see people that carry guns as automatically having the training because they do. So making it easier for them to have the gun concealed I'm all in which is what the thread is about.

As to my story about the hospitals. Gun free zone. Just pointing out it could possibly be a hazard to my health. Take it how you want it but there is a threat out there that wants to do defenseless Americans harm.

 

I agree unless you already have taken a gun/hunting safety course previously and have proof. (from any state). Anything thing beyond that probably would never get off the ground. 2nd amendment...The right to bear arms with no infringements. Give "them" an inch and "they" will take a mile.

 

Actually NRA sanctioned hunter safety courses are pretty good and not just for little boys. Even though my dad (retired USMC officer) taught me gun safety and how to reload my own rounds, and the fact I served in the USMC myself and shot expert all 6 years while I was in, I still had to retake the Colorado hunter safety course since I no longer had proof of my Oregon hunter safety course that I took when I was twelve. (1967). Half the class was comprised of adults. Many in my situation. Not just little boys. There were little girls too and their mothers. Handgun safety is the same difference. Good CCW classes are about the law/regs mostly in your state. Common sense can't be taught to anyone. Can't unteach stupid.

 

CO just made it where I could take an online hunter safety course because I meet that old age requirement which is stupid. That CO Hunter safety course was great. The two instructors were NAM vets. The best part of the class was at the end of the third night when they played a video on how to field dress a deer. It's one thing to harvest a deer, it's that blood and guts thing that a few folks got sqeamish. Heh heh