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Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed
It’s the potential victim of an inexperienced gun carrier that concerns me. Concealed carry should require some license. There are people that act spontaneously and irrationally - some with diagnosed mental conditions that should not carry. Bipolar off meds, early onset dementia, etc. Not bad people but simply not always wired right. Hard question with no easy answers
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Good points. All too often it is what a person DOESN'T know about guns that ends up chomping them in the shorts.
Maybe an answer is not to mandate training only if and when someone buys a gun with the intent to carry, but to make gun education mandatory in schools. The odds of that happening today are probably slim and none, given the hysteria and anti-gun bias in today's culture, but back in the day that training was freely available, though in Minnesota not a required class. But the mindset at that time was different: guns were tools, and being educated as to tool use was seen as totally logical, no different in intent than learning how to use a table saw in shop class, or becoming competent with an arc welder.
Knowing about guns goes a long way toward un-demonizing (is that a word) guns.