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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The training costs would be enormous, and you would almost create a whole new industry because nobody that's worth it would do that kind of training for free.
Training gun safety and marksmanship is lovely but it falls short of the type of training that is going to be required.
I get offended when this guy says that it would take him a hour to train a marksman. Shooting holes in a stationary paper target is easy. Shooting holes in a living breathing thinking human being who is shooting at you is a whole other thing and that's the mark of a marksman.
that ignores the fact that you could be putting a gun on Barney Fife, or god forbid the next great school shooter who happens to be ex police or military.
Though the image of a priest with a shot gun is kinda amusing for me and a possible movie script the idea of a volunteer force of gun toting vigilantes with minimal training and little over sight is terrifying to me.
Like I mentioned before it takes months and years to train an infantry soldier to learn how to function and use his weapons effectively in a chaotic and hostile environment. It takes longer to train a cop.
so lets say that there is a charge of a couple of thousand dollars to train a volunteer and there are a million schools, your talking a $2 billion dollar minimal startup not including the insurance that you'd need to buy and ongoing training costs.
Are we supplying them with weapons and ammo? Or are they bringing their own, because the image of a fat priest with a M-60 and a drum magazine would probably be tramatic to a 6 year old. Though a teacher telling students to behave or Father Johnson will dole out some hot lead punishment would be a benefit.
Its a stupid idea, you'd have no training standards, you'd possibly be hiring the next great school shooter, there are no guarantees that the school will be any safer. Its the perfect example of a reactionary solution instead of dealing with the root cause of easy access to excessive forms of firearms that are potentially be putting in the hands of nuts.
Its just a ######ed idea. You'd think it would appeal to someone like me, but if I'm repulsed by the idea there's a problem with it.
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This post deserves more than a thanks. Wish I could post it on facebook or something