"Doug White" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in
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"rangerssuck" wrote in message
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.. On Dec 27, 5:51 pm, rangerssuck wrote:
On Dec 27, 4:20 pm, "David R.Birch" wrote:

You mean some of you know how many guns you have...?

David

Apparently only Karl does. None of the other big strong men in this
group seem to be willing to put their cards on the table.

I, by the way have zero guns.

We can fix that. We could go to the range sometime. I was a certified
rifle instructor and no expert with handguns, but I can get you
started safely.

You might even like it enough to get one. d8-)

If Johnny goes to school and doesn't learn how to add, he may learn it
later, and he's not particularly dangerous. Being a pistol instructor
puts
much higher demands on your teaching skills. On the basis of a 3 hour
safety lecture, I was willing to go into the range the next night and give
15 total strangers loaded handguns. I've taught several hundred people
how
to shoot, and we never had a serious accident. I typically had an
assistant instructor for every 2 or 3 students. By the end of class, most
of the students could keep all their shots on a standard 50 foot target.
This was at MIT, and we tended to get reasonably bright students, although
there were exceptions.

I now teach as an assistant instructor with another club. Their course
are
open to the public. All live firing is done with an instructor working
individually with each student.

'Sounds like the right way to do it.

About 15 years ago they had a woman sign
up for the course with the sole purpose of committing suicide. She
managed
to get one shot into her head before an instructor could stop her. She
survived, but with extensive brain damage. It still gives me the willies
just thinking about it.

Doug White

Good God. You never know what occupational hazards will turn up on the job.

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Ed Huntress