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- From: vanetten@unix.cie.rpi.edu (John S. Van Etten)
- Subject: Re: Dressed for Rape
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:15:33 GMT
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- Jerry Hollombe writes:
-
- [lots of stuff deleted]
- [JSVE writes:]
- >}it's there). They're saying to not bother learning to use safeties at
- >}all, in the literal interpetation of their words (as paraphrased by
- >}C.D. Tavares). ...
- >
- >C.D. Tavares is wrong. Nowhere, in any of the NRA lesson plans, does it
- >say to ignore safeties. If some NRA instructor said anything like that in
- >a class he was expressing his own opinion, not NRA policy. IMHO, it's a
- >damn stupid opinion. If anyone of his students gets hurt because of it
- >and sues him the NRA will probably throw him to the wolves, and rightly
- >so.
- >
- >The NRA classes stress safe gun handling and warn not to _rely_ on
- >safeties. Nowhere do they say not to _use_ them. That's the important
- >distinction that seems to have been missed in this discussion. One should
- >_always_ use whatever safety options are available, but _never_ rely on
- >mechanical safeties as a substitute for proper gun handling procedure.
- >
- >Note that every firearm user's manual I've ever read has taken the same
- >attitude. They all stress safe gun handling and warn against reliance on
- >mechanical safeties.
-
- Jerry, thanks a million for clearing this up. It saves me a lot of
- grief, since I'm not too into heated conversations with fellow RKBAers
- (all of whom I consider "friendlies" -- even Andy ;-). I'll have to
- ask that you all forgive me for the misunderstanding. I guess I was a
- little too quick in my acceptance of the paraphrase about the modern
- NRA courses dismissing safeties as unimportant. However, bear in mind
- that I haven't taken the modern version (it's been the better part of
- 30 years since I learned about gun safety), and knew that C.D. was
- familiar with it. Since I was misinformed (no doubt unintentionally),
- I'll have to retract my statement about my disappoinment in the NRA
- safety courses and continue to send folks their way.
-
- Thanks again, Jerry, for clarifying this. See, I told you we agree
- about firearms safety. :-)
-
-
- John
-
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