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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
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.
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Growing up in the midwest, the county had a gun safety program for teenagers and most of us attended upon turning 13.