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Originally Posted by willravel
I can always learn more, but you're language was clear.
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Yes, crystal clear:
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Originally Posted by debaser
I am refering to general firearms safety, not a class on how to fire guns.
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Tell you what, come on over here tomorrow and I'll walk with you downtown with a metal detector. I happen to know that, because of conceal carry laws, and low gun crime rates in the area, I'm not likely to be around a gun unless it's on the hip of a police officer. So we can take our walk. Then we can stop off for some delicious humble pie. I know a great place, as I've been wrong before about many things.
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Sure, I'll bite (though not the pie). Since you are being silly, and you have a metal detector handy, I'll be right over.
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Maybe the real question should be, why, in my 23 years on this Earth, have I never had to use a gun? I don't even think I've ever been offered the opportunity. I'll tell you I've never actively seeked to learn about or aquire a gun, but really...you're suggesting mandatory gun training for everyone. For me it would be as useless as spelling.
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I thought you had been shot? That seems to me to be the quintessential opportunity to use a gun.
Be careful you don't reap what you sew (sic[see below]).
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Do you have access to the statistics about those accidental shootings, like for example how many of those people had gun training?
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No, but given the number of guns versus the number of safety courses offered it seems a matter of "common sense" that not everybody who has the potential to come into contact with a gun is properly trained to act in a safe manner around one.
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How many people wear clothes? More than have guns? Booyah.
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They accidentaly die from wearing clothes? You have lost me here, your logic is truely daunting.
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Sex education has been forced towards abstinence, so I'd agree there. Sciences are important to every day life of everyone, because we all in science. Drivers ed...do you know what percentage of Americans have drivers licenses? Compare that to how many people have guns.
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Yeah, but driving is "common sense" to me, so I say we can it.
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There's no such thing as magic. There is such thing as common sense. It's not as common as I'd like, but it's there.
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What about all the people who aren't so prescient about gun safety, like the one who might accidently shoot you through the dorm wall wilst try to clean his pistol? Wouldn't it make sense to spend a day, just one day, in class to at least mitigate some of those incidents?